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By: strange librarian » Blog Archive » your dream Jeopardy! board

strange librarian » Blog Archive » your dream Jeopardy! board — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:10:23 +0000

[...] i’d love to claim credit for this, but i got this idea from the “Librarian Avengers” who was citing Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. [...]

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:26:57 +0000

Dream categories:

Beekeeping
C64 Text Adventures
LGBT History
Lyrics to The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
Why I left Flint, MI
CSS
Transmission of the 1986 Chevy Nova

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:08:06 +0000

Dream categories:
– English usage and abusage
– Tennis
– Muhammad Ali
– Las Vegas
– The Kennedy assassination

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:19:31 +0000

Dream Jeopardy categories:
Caltrain Trivia
Children’s Literature of the 1980s
English Usage and Abusage
The System of the World (all about Neal Stephenson)
Road Cycling: Laws and Best Practices

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:44:16 +0000

- College basketball
- Bible
- Sherlock Holmes
- German literature
- Star Trek
- Camera anatomy

Okay, now I’ve scared myself. That’s a freaky mix of subjects.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:57:32 +0000

Dreamy Dream Categories for me would be:
– Blown interview questions
– Jelly making
– Nora Roberts novels
– Movie quotes
– Childrens books re: childrens librarians
– Reasons mullets are wrong

By: Dream Jeopardy! categories at geistweg

Dream Jeopardy! categories at geistweg — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:55:53 +0000

[...] Erica, the Librarian Avenger, wrote an entry today about a section of Douglas Copelandâ€™s Microserfs that she really enjoyed. In essence, Copeland describes a characterâ€™s personality based on her perfect Jeopardy! board. At the end of the entry, Erica asked â€œwhat would your Dream Jeopardy! categories be?â€ [...]

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:49:04 +0000

Wow. Gotta say, I think I’d do pretty well in all but the first category. My nightmare categories would be:

- Vector Geometry
- Doing things half-assed
- The delightful flavor of peanuts
- The poetry of John Ashcroft
- Old Norse

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:32:55 +0000

Ah, yes, “Microserfs”! Loved it. But I always approached the “Jeopardy” problem from a glass-half-empty perspective. My nightmare categories:
– The Bible.
– Classical music.
– Shakespeare.
– Mythology.
– Science fiction.