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Can You Answer These Real Jeopardy! Questions About Words?

Hristina Byrnes

Published: April 26, 2023 5:00 pm

What better way to spend this time with friends than to test each other’s knowledge with fun trivia questions?

As one of the most beloved games in American television history, “Jeopardy!” offers an entertaining activity to pass the time. Three contestants will have to battle it out while answering clues from different categories, several of which are about words. The categories vary wildly — from basics like compound words to more odd ones like “Dr. Johnson’s alphabet.”

24/7 Tempo went through J! Archives — a site created by fans of the show that lists clues going back to 1984 — and found more than 11,000 clues about words. We narrowed them down to 30 that are more specifically about the meaning of words, synonyms, descriptions, popular expressions, and spelling.

Click here to see if you can answer these real Jeopardy! clues about words

Test your knowledge in another area — U.S. states: Here are 50 real “Jeopardy!” questions about each state.

FROM RAGS TO RICHES $1200:

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Redact

NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2000:

A dachshund

TRENDING AT MERRIAM-WEBSTER $1200:

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Hirsute

FROM THE “PEN” OF WEBSTER’S THIRD $800:

“Prudent only in small matters”

Pennywise

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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1000:

Nemesis

WORDS START WITH “U” $800:

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Unboxing

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NONSENSE WORDS $400:

Bazinga!

16-LETTER WORDS $2000:

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Northeasternmost

REVERSIBLE COMPOUND WORDS $1200:

Layover and overlay

ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $1600:

The back of the neck

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Nape

JUST YOUR AVERAGE CATEGORY $1200:

Mediocre

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SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS $2000:

Adieu

HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $400:

Equinox

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FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200:

An au pair

ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800:

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Treason and senator

NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200:x

A three-ring-circus

ABORIGINAL WORDS $400:

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Boomerang

NEWER WORDS $1600:

Youthquake

ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200:

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A duckface

MALE & FEMALE WORDS $400:

Iron

WORDS ABOUT WORDS $600:

This 5-letter verb meaning “to express feeling”, maybe on stage, is an example of a back-formation

Emote

MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800:

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Tetanus

BORROWED WORDS $1200:

A bodega

AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $600:

Freelance