Literary devices
Fears and Phobias
Jeopardy!
Rhymes with a Vowel
Geography
200

The use of a more pleasant word or expression in the place of an offensive or unpleasant one.

Euphemism

200

If you have agoraphobia, you might be scared to go for a walk in a large field, the opposite is called this.

Claustrophobia 

200

Answers must be formatted as this, or else they won't count.

question

200

Procedure to sterilize a female cat

Spay

200

This is the capital city of Bulgaria

Sofia

400

Using one thing to symbolize or represent a more abstract thing, without the word "like".

Metaphor

400

Not a phobia, this is the constant fear of becoming ill.

Hypochondria

400

Merv Griffin created Jeopardy as well as this other popular gameshow where you ask for letters to find a hidden phrase.

Wheel of Fortune

400

French for "handsome" (or the name of a cat that I miss very much).

Beau

400

Located in Canada's least densely populated territory, this is the 5th biggest island in the world.

Baffin Island

600

Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming syllables.

assonance

600

The fear of heights is called this. The prefix to which is also commonly used before the word "yoga".

Acrophobia

600

Ken Jennings won $2.5 million dollars on Jeopardy. His win streak was this many consecutive games in a row. One less than three quarters of one hundred. 

74

600

It's fish eggs

Roe

600

Burmese people reside in this country, by its current official name.

Myanmar

800

A distinctive feature or dominant idea persisting throughout a literary composition. Also a repetition of a sequence of notes in a musical composition.

Motif

800

A type of psychotherapy used to treat phobias is called CBT, which stands for this. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 

800

*Two words separated by an "&", this is Jeopardy's most used category, where two responses must be combined to give the right answer. An example is "Snoopy's owner who's a large forest-dwelling ursine creature: Charlie Brown Bear".

Before & After

800

Bashful, or short of the right amount

Shy

800

*Of the three four-letter American states, this is their arrangement from west to east. 

Utah, Iowa, Ohio

1000

J.R.R. Tolkien coined the term Phonaesthetics, the study of the beauty or pleasantness of the sound of words. This literary device refers to a harmonious string of Phonaesthetic words.

Euphony

1000

Glossophobia is the most common phobia in the USA, it is the fear of this.

Public Speaking

1000

Everybody answer. Closest to the amount of Jeopardy episodes aired gets the points.

8201

1000

In court, the defendant's formal statement in regards to their guilt or innocence of the charges.

Plea

1000

This type of map projection was created in 1569 to turn a spherical earth into a cylindrical or flat map, used for navigation. It is still commonly used today in maps like Google maps. 

Mercator

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