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Can You Answer These Real Jeopardy! Questions About Words?
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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
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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
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