Family Trivia Jeopardy
Generations, sitcom families, life before smartphones and the family tree, plus a column to swap for your own family. Copy it free and play with phone buzzers.
6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.
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.
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.
Boomers to Gen Alpha
- $200
People born from 1946 to 1964, during the post-war jump in births, are known by this name.
Who are the baby boomers?
- $400
Pew Research defines this generation, also called Gen Y, as people born from 1981 to 1996.
Who are the millennials?
- $600
Pew Research defines this generation, the first to grow up with smartphones, as people born from 1997 to 2012.
What is Generation Z?
- $800
This generation, born from 1965 to 1980, took its name from a 1991 Douglas Coupland novel.
What is Generation X?
- $1,000
Researcher Mark McCrindle named the generation born from about 2010 after the first letter of this alphabet.
What is the Greek alphabet?
TV Families
- $200
This Australian cartoon follows a Blue Heeler puppy, her sister Bingo and their parents, Bandit and Chilli.
What is Bluey?
- $400
Widowed dad Danny Tanner raises three daughters in San Francisco with help from Jesse and Joey on this sitcom.
What is Full House?
- $600
Phil, Claire, Jay and Gloria are part of the sprawling clan on this ABC mockumentary sitcom.
What is Modern Family?
- $800
On this sitcom, sportswriter Ray Barone's parents live right across the street and walk in whenever they like.
What is Everybody Loves Raymond?
- $1,000
Kevin Arnold grows up in the late-1960s suburbs, narrated by his adult self, on this sitcom.
What is The Wonder Years?
Around the House
- $200
This appliance pops your bread up when it's done.
What is a toaster?
- $400
Fire safety experts say to test these ceiling alarms once a month.
What are smoke detectors?
- $600
The name of this living-room screen blends the Greek for "far" with the Latin for "seeing."
What is a television?
- $800
In Britain the brand name Hoover became a common word for this appliance.
What is a vacuum cleaner?
- $1,000
Engineer Percy Spencer invented this kitchen appliance after a chocolate bar melted in his pocket near a radar tube.
What is a microwave oven?
At the Kitchen Table
- $200
Tony the Tiger tells you this cereal is "grrreat."
What is Frosted Flakes?
- $400
Jif, Skippy and Peter Pan are brands of this sandwich spread.
What is peanut butter?
- $600
Kraft's famous blue box holds this dinner.
What is macaroni and cheese?
- $800
Ruth Wakefield created this cookie at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts in the 1930s.
What is the chocolate chip cookie?
- $1,000
Hormel first sold this canned pork in 1937, and it later fed millions of soldiers in World War II.
What is Spam?
Back in the Day
- $200
Before streaming, families rented movies on these tapes from stores like Blockbuster.
What are VHS tapes?
- $400
To call someone on this kind of phone, you put your finger in a hole and turned the dial.
What is a rotary phone?
- $600
Kids in the 1980s rewound cassette tapes by hand with this writing tool to save batteries.
What is a pencil?
- $800
This brand's instant cameras spit out a photo that developed in your hand.
What is Polaroid?
- $1,000
This 1979 Sony player let people carry their cassettes and listen on headphones anywhere.
What is the Walkman?
The Family Tree
- $200
Your mother's sister is your this.
What is an aunt?
- $400
The child of your aunt or uncle is your this.
What is a cousin?
- $600
Your sister's son is your this.
What is a nephew?
- $800
Your grandmother's mother is your this.
What is a great-grandmother?
- $1,000
The child of your first cousin is your this.
What is a first cousin once removed?
Final Jeopardy — Family Names
Smith is the most common surname in the United States; in the 2010 Census, this name was second.
What is Johnson?
How to run this board
Holiday family game night works when the grandparents and the kids both have a column they own, and this board is built around that. There's a column on the generations, from the baby boomers to Gen Alpha, one on TV families from The Wonder Years to Bluey, one on life before smartphones that the oldest people at the table will sweep, and columns on the house and the food that everyone can play.
The Family Tree column is the one meant to be replaced. After you copy the board, open it in the editor, rename that column to your family's name, and rewrite its five clues about your own people: who was born where, whose recipe is whose, which cousin got lost at the beach. Keep the easiest story at $200 and the one only Grandma knows at $1000. Every other column plays as it is.
Put it on the TV and let everyone buzz in from their phone. Teams by generation make the Back in the Day column a real contest.
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