We love Jeopardy! sports categories here, especially really tough ones or at least sports-themed clues that contestants totally whiff on.
But now there’s a new type of sports category to love: the one that we saw on Tuesday’s episode. Alex Trebek explained that football has given competitors trouble in the past — see 2017 and 2018 — so they were trying something new in which he would be giving contestants referee hand signals.
It’s as wonderful as you imagined, and the cool thing is Jeopardy! used it’s Twitter account to show Trebek’s development of the category on paper, complete with cursive write-ups and Trebek’s various signals scribbled out:
As for the clues? The competitors got three of five. Not bad!
