Jeopardy Jr. was an attempt to cull more money from well-meaning parents by creating a game that will bring more monmey for their License from Jeopardy, as well as having a selling point of being "educational". Because of course, it's just Jeopardy, but with cartooney/cutesy kid avatars, and much easier questions. And that' not to say it was baseless. Usually once a year, Jeopardy would do a "Junior Edition" episode with some intermediate/middle school validictorians answering questions IIRC, and with "prizes" like a $10,000 college tuition fund, the Encyclopedia Brittanica, or a computer. Maybe I'm not remembering it all correctly. Jeopardy Junior may also have been an actual game show.

However, a decade later I got married and me and the wife found this to be the game to put in once we were sick of being tripped on questions from when we were so young that it was time to step out of our parent's politicial dinner conversation (imagine, a time when people could talk politics and not end with someone screaming or holding up a steak knife) to play Super Mario Bros.. So what's worse than "Colors" for $100, and then ansering "It's these two colors from which green is made" "what is Blue & Yellow!".