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Jeopardy Replacement? Please?

Does anyone remember playing Jeopardy in school? Or in Church activities? Or any other situation where the host hadn't actually seen Jeopardy?
To people running group trivia games, can we please find a game that's more relevant?

Jeopardy has a rather dull premise, is stereotypically watched by people 3 times the age of those public school kids, and is really hard to spell.

Not to mention that nobody seems to answer with "What is______" or "Who is _______". Of course, maybe I'm the only one who got annoyed by that or by the fact that it seemed like the squares on the board turned out to be questions more often than answers.
Or maybe that was just my experience.
The lack of buzzers also made things really problematic. How do we know which student answered first? Do we have to wait for the Special Edition to find out that a different student actually answered first? What about in the blu-ray version, where the greedy student hits the buzzer first, but misses at point-blank range? I saw several elementary school kids demand that their teacher change who answered first in post-production. Jeopardy is just too problematic these days.
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