Personally my brain does not work well with remembering specific facts, I always admire people who can recall so easily. Well, aside from Alex's master

Personally my brain does not work well with remembering specific facts, I always admire people who can recall so easily. Well, aside from Alex's masterful job of hosting, that's the brilliance of Jeopardy. It's "trivia", but it does not thrive on facts that may be memorized by rote, such as "in what year was Napolean born?" or some such thing. Notice that the "answers" are referred to as clues; it is really a game of inference and connection-making. Here's how you play: you think about the clue, and think about the fact that nearly all of the correct responses are things you have heard of. For example, if the clue is, "This New York Yankee once said: [insert amusingly mangled malapropism here]" you can think: well, there are perhaps ten New York Yankees who might be considered household names to the average middle-aged American. But only one of them is known for malapropisms: Yogi Berra. So, it's probably him, even if you've never heard that particular quote. And the show stays honest to this unspoken conceit: they will generally not try to "trick" the player. It's not a test of whether or not you memorized quotations by baseball players, or read a book about Yogi Berra. It's a test to see if you can make that connection. You can see the contestants on the show making educated guesses like this, frequently, usually multiple times per game. Again, that's why it's also a game of wagering. You are not stating unequivocally that you know the correct response; you are essentially assessing your confidence level in your response.