...the category wasn't levidromes. Jeopardy! had their Teen Tournament games between November 7 and November 20, 2018. In their 10th game of the competition, Jeopardy! had a category called "Forwards and Backwards" in their double jeopardy round. In this category, they would show the answer and then ask for a pair of words for the question.
Alex Trebek, the host for Jeopardy! described the "Forwards & Backwards" category as "We'll need 2 words for each response, and each one will be the reverse of the other".
Since there isn't a formal definition for "Forwards & Backwards" words, Jeopardy! opted with just calling the category "Forwards & Backwards".
This was a classic levidrome category.
In case you missed it, here is an excerpt from the "Forwards & Backwards" round:
We think it is time for Jeopardy! to start using the word levidromes. After all, there is a word for these backwards type of words.
We did a bit of digging. Jeopardy! is in its 35th season. Congratulations Jeopardy! Jeopardy! had made use of the levidromic categories in the past including a few variations. You can view these results in the links below:
- 2001-05-22
- 2001-11-09
- 2002-10-03
- 2004-04-07
- 2005-05-12
- 2008-01-10
- 2008-06-10
- 2010-06-30
- 2010-09-15
- 2013-02-26
- 2018-11-20
I suppose we can let it slip for the older shows because levidrome wasn't even a word yet. (Heck, Levi was not even born yet for most of the episodes). But anything going forward, it should be levidromes.