


Thankfully, there are thousands upon thousands of books in the Jeopardy! Library, stretching back to the Art Fleming era, though Wisse admits there’s still plenty of Internet research that goes into your average question. in my experience, I would not have thought it was such a problem, but there are an amazing number of facts and qualities and assertions that apply to many different kinds of the same thing.” The spark of an idea might come from anywhere-current events, a chance event-but once it does, the writer is responsible for writing that out into a whole category. “If you find that there are half a dozen other rodents also acceptable based on that description you gave of that one squirrel, then you need to rewrite the clue and tighten it up so it’s just the one squirrel,” Wisse says. Of course, sometimes as we’ve seen in the show, the judges will accept one of two answers, but that’s the upper ceiling of multiple choices.

Pinning means sorting out that there is for sure only one possible answer.
