First, the category names on Jeopardy! are tricky. The answers often do not exactly fit the category.
Sometimes, the category names do limit the range of possible answers. The humans can figure out when a category name contains irony or a pun. Watson can't, so it can't figure out that a category like "US Cities" is dead earnest.
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First, the category names on Jeopardy! are tricky. The answers often do not exactly fit the category.
Sometimes, the category names do limit the range of possible answers. The humans can figure out when a category name contains irony or a pun. Watson can't, so it can't figure out that a category like "US Cities" is dead earnest.