Jeopardy! categories: "Joy" Division, Warsaw, She's Lost Control, C/D?

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My mother and I are watching Jeopardy! and it's the second round and the last three categories are, well, "Joy" Division (where the answer has "joy" in the title), Warsaw (question about the city), and She's Lost Control (about female characters in literature and cinema going nuts).

Utterly classic, very subtle. Neither of us realised those were the topics until the contestants would say, "I'll take 'Joy' Division for $600" or "I'll take She's Lost Control for $200, Alex."

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait wait, there are five categories on Jeopardy, so what are the other two?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I also revived a Joy Division thread because of this:

Am I the biggest Joy Division fan?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

is this an april fools joke?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The other two were "flower names" and I don't remember what the other one was.

I SWEAR this is not an April Fool's joke. My mum witnessed it, too...I wasn't hallucinating...

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 1 April 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, all the categories are listed on MindInRewind's revive.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 1 April 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Having been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand I can only assume this is a dodgy joke. Which bit of San Fierro should we meet, kid?

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a dodgy joke. The programmers for the show were probably being funny. It was great...

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 1 April 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

indeed. it just aired finally on the west coast.
quite funny indeed. im quite sure none of the contestants were aware of the connection.

now im listening to unknown pleasures ;)

― dogonwheels (dogonwheels), Friday, 1 April 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There must be some hep writers on the show, because they did the same thing with Smiths references about a year ago; I think it was only two categories, and one of 'em was "The Queen Is Dead."

― JoshM, Friday, 1 April 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

What is Stiff Kittens, Alex.

― drewo (drewo), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1s-SjIOFEA

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 December 2012 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

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