They have been Hit TV Shows, TV shows, Cabinet Departments, Fast Food Chains, Colleges, Celebrities, and many others and back in 1986, 1988, and 1989 they were Just "In Other Words". A related link has been added that could take you to a whole list of them. In January 12 1988 Alex Trebek says, about the category "Movies in Other Words", "and that category means exactly what it says". The first clue was "The square root of 100" and the answer was 10.( The title of the movie with Bo Derek)
If the first link doesn't work type the words "in other words" into the search for any season of the Jeopardy Archive related link.
Jeopardy! questions cover an encyclopedia worth of categories taken from Science, History, Pop Culture, Literature, Geography, etc... Examples of traditional Jeopardy! categories are: The Oscars, Literary Characters, Word Origins, and U.S. Presidents. Some of Jeopardy's categories with a twist are: Before & After, Rhyme Time, Stupid Answers, and Name's the Same.
Jeopardy is the show with categories
Common categories on Jeopardy focus on general topics such as history, geography, literature, food & drink and sports & entertainment. Other categories might be more specific, focusing on history of a certain country or an entire category devoted to one famous person. Then there are the novelty categories such as "Rhyme Time", "Names the Same" and "Stupid Answers."
The categories in the Double Jeopardy! Round on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 were World Cities, The Comeback Kids, Poetry Time, 5 Other Senses, An End For "U" and "Me", and Famous Trials.
6 categories with 5 questions in both the Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy round total 60 Squares
MOSES
All of the Jeopardy game is available in a record on the related link
Jeopardy has a team of writers and researchers for the questions and categories. Feel free to contact them because they will decide if your category suggestions have merit regardless of what was done previously.
Monday, July 5, 2010 Jeopardy Category U.S.States 600 Clue: Clearwater & Palm Beach are popular seaside resorts in this state answer: What is Florida see related links for this question and other Jeopardy Florida Categories, Clues , & Ansswers
It's an instrumental without words as the Jeopardy theme.
The Jeopardy! production staff has six researchers and 10 writers whose jobs are to create and assemble categories and questions for the series.
Jeopardy has many more than 5 main categories of its Questions/clues and the show itself could be said to have different parts or acts like an introduction , single , double , and final Jeopardy. There would also be when the winner is determined if that was the five you were asking about. They is also a commercial break as part of the single Jeopardy round