Jeopardy Game Show - by Ray Sahelian, M.D. - I occasionally watch Jeopardy Game Show as a mental exercise to keep my brain young. Jeopardy is one of the best shows on TV, perhaps the best, to improve memory and refresh your memory of words and events. Furthermore, I think anyone who wants to be a comedian, or is a comedian, would be helped by watching and studying Jeopardy since your response becomes faster and you can have a wider selection of words in your brain to come up with when making a joke..
These are some of the terms I have come across on the Jeopardy game show.
AWARDS
Grammys
Nobel, 1901, Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economics,
Pulitzer, 1921
CELEBRITIES
Aflack, Ben
Andrews, Julie, Mary Poppins, Sound of Music
Autrey, gene, singing cowboy
Brandy, moesha star
Culkin, Macaulay
Eminem
Hilton, Paris
Jojo
Olson
Reeves, keanu, born in Beirut, Lebanon
Simpson, Ashley
CHARITY ORGANIZATION
mentioned on Jeopardy
American Red Cross, junior branch started 1917
Hospital volunteer, Candy Striper
Mother Theresa, Calcutta
RIF- reading is fundamental
Sierra Club
CLOTHING
Abaya - the full-length black robes worn by devout Muslim women
Petticoat, undergarment
HAT
Chukka hat, named after chukkers in polo
Hennin is conical, 15th century women
Mountie hat, state policemen and forest rangers
Panama Hat, made from Jipijapa plant in Ecuador
Top Hat, also known as silk hat
COMICS
Archie, 1941
Barney and friends, I love you, you love me
South Park, Cartman
Simpsons, Homer
Family Guy, baby Stewie
Peter Piper
Snow White, Bashful
Wonderwoman, 1941
FLYING
Blimp
Dirigible - Good Year Blimp in Ohio
Hughes, Howard, Sproose Goose
Lockhead C130 named after Hercules
Wright brothers, Wilbur, Orville
Quantas, Australia, started 1958
HOLIDAY
Martin Luther King day, January
HOROSCOPE - Zodiac - the Chinese version of zodiac cycle covers 12 years
Aquarius, late jan, late feb, Water Bearer
Pisces, late feb to march
Taurus, late april, late may
Cancer, late june, late july
Leo, late july to late august
MAGAZINE
Time
MUSIC
BB King, legendary blues guitarist
Berlin, Irving, White Christmas
Carey, Mariah
McCartnery
No Doubt - Gwen Stefani
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Van Morrison, born in Belfast
Woodstock, 1969
Yodel, cowboys or swiss mountaineers
Yo Yo Ma - cello
CLASSICAL
Hungary, Franz Listz, rhapsodies
MUSICAL
Fiddler on the Roof
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Percussionist uses mallet
UNIVERSITY
Barnard
Brandeis, jewish
Brigham Young, Provo, Utha, 1875
Bryn Mawr,
Emerson, Boston
Harvard, 1643, ann radcliffe
Holy Cross, 1840, worcester, Mass, oldest catholic univ
Princeton, New Jersey
Notre Dame, Fighting Irish
Purdue
Stanford, railroad building
university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vanderbilt, Tennessee
Vasser
West point
Xavier, cincinatti, one of 28 member institutions of the association of jesuit
colleges and universities
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Jewelry - Loupe and Ring sizer
Letter Carrier, pepper based spray for dogs
Centrifuge
TOYS
Slinky, coiled rings
TV
Apprentice
Lost
Punkted, Ashton Kucher
Survivor
THEATRE
Chorus
Scene
BALLET
Billy the Kid, 1938, Copeland
Cinderella, Swan lake (odette, ovile),
Rodea (Copeland, agnes de Mille), Petrushka by Stravinski, clown puppet gets his
heart broken, dies and becomes a ghost.
Equus, Peter Shaffer,
Fancy Free, 1944, Jerome Robins
Nutcracker, 1877Nutcraker (kingdom of Sweets), clara gets a nutcraker for
christmas
Najinski, vaslav, most famous ballet dancer 1920s
Perkoviev, Peter and the Wolf
Animals mentioned on
jeopardy
Art is often answered on
Jeopardy
Books mentioned on jeopardy
Business mentioned on
jeopardy
Cooking terms mentioned
on Jeopardy
Geography mentioned on
jeopardy
History is a prominent
topic on Jeopardy
Movie