Anybody watch
Jeopardy! today? There was an entire board with the categories themed on Pokémon (though, in
Jeopardy! tradition, only the last category, the one furthest on the right, is about it).
For the record, the categories were about as follows:
Peek a Choo-Choo: Photographs and artwork of trains
Geo, Dude: Natural geography as spoken by a surfer dude
Odd-ish: Weird facts
Slowpoke: Synonyms of "slow"
Nine Tales: Folklore and literature, with nine stories total across the five clues
Pokémon: Pokémon
The contestants looked like they were TERRIFIED of the Pokémon category and went through the clues in all of the other categories before going to that one, and Ann, the contestant on the right (from the perspective of the camera) who had to pick a clue when only the Pokémon ones were left, could be seen hesitating for a moment. The Pokémon category was also the only one on this board chosen in order from top to bottom.
They were going easy, knowing that the existence of Pokémon is general knowledge but very little of it is otherwise. The $200 clue was about which parade has a giant 50-foot Pikachu balloon, the $400 was about which mobile Pokémon game was released in 2016, the $600 clue was to name the process in which a Pokémon changes into a more powerful form (and to avoid confusion in case there's a hardcore Pokémon fan among the contestants, mentioned that it shares a name with the real-life process of animals changing over millions of years), and the $800 clue was about what someone who raises and battles Pokémon are called (comparing it to what one would call someone who manages race horses). Time ran out before they reached the $1000 clue. Would've liked to see if it was actually about in-depth knowledge, since the bottom clue in a
Jeopardy! category is typically about things only a fan of the topic is expected to know.
(I'd make a more detailed recap, but my recording of this episode got corrupted. Sorry.)