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Jeopardy! is a popular international television quiz game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also created Wheel of Fortune. The show originated in the United States, where it first ran on NBC from March 30, 1964 until January 3, 1975; in a weekly syndicated version from September 9, 1974 to September 7, 1975; and in a retooled revival from October 2, 1978 to March 2, 1979. Its most successful incarnation is the current Alex Trebek-hosted syndicated version, which has aired continuously since September 10, 1984. This version of Jeopardy! began its 23rd season in syndication on September 11, 2006 with its first broadcast in HDTV. Jeopardy! is a game of trivia, covering topics such as history, literature, and pop culture. Science and sports topics are also covered occasionally. During the game, three competing contestants select clues from a game board, up to 61 clues per game, each clue in the form of an answer, to which they must supply correct responses, each response in the form of a question. The conceit of "questioning answers" is original to Jeopardy! and, along with its theme music, remains the most enduring and distinctive element of the show.
Broadcast historyMain article: Jeopardy! broadcast history Jeopardy! has a more than 40-year broadcast history in the United States since being created by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s in response to the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. Image:Alextrebek86.jpg Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, circa 1986 GameplayThe Jeopardy! RoundEach day, there are three contestants, one of whom is usually the defending champion (and is always introduced last and is at the podium on the viewer's left), who play a three-round game. The first round is simply called the Jeopardy! Round.
The values of each of the five answers are thus:
Image:Tv jeopardy may 25 2005 board.jpg The answer board (Season 19-22 Jeopardy! set). The returning champion or the new challenger in the first position (standing at the leftmost lectern from Trebek's point of view) begins the game by selecting a category and monetary value ("PRESIDENTS for $200"). The host then reads the 'answer' ("He was the Father of Our Country; he didn't really chop down a cherry tree"), after which any of the three contestants may ring in. The host recognizes that contestant, who must then phrase his or her response in question form ("Who was/is or Who's George Washington?"). A correct response wins the dollar value of the clue, and gives the "questioner" the right to select the next clue. If he/she is incorrect or failed to answer in time, that amount is deducted (hence, the dollar amount was always in jeopardy) and his/her opponents may ring in and respond. If all three contestants fail to respond or give wrong questions, the correct response is read, and the player who gave the last correct response chooses the next clue. The current scores are shown on the front of each player's lectern. In the Art Fleming run, positive scores had plus signs next to them, while negative scores had minus signs next to them; in the Trebek version, no plus sign is used for a positive score, but the minus sign remains. On the current set, scores in the "plus column" are displayed with a blue background, negative scores with a red one. Daily DoublesIn each game, three clues are designated "Daily Doubles" (a name taken from horse racing): one in the Jeopardy! Round and two in the Double Jeopardy! Round. Only the contestant who selects a Daily Double may respond to its clue. The player may wager as much as the maximum amount of a clue on the board (currently $1000 in the Jeopardy! round and $2000 in the Double Jeopardy! round) or as much as he or she has accumulated, whichever is greater, but must wager at least $5. Players may also indicate that they wish to make it a "True Daily Double", meaning that they are risking all the money that they have accumulated up to that point. Daily Doubles are sometimes designated with special tags, such as "Audio Daily Double" (in which a sound clip is played as part of the clue), "Video Daily Double" (in which a video clip is played as part of the clue), "Celebrity Daily Double" (in which a celebrity delivers the clue), etc. such a tag is displayed as soon as the Daily Double has been selected, and may serve as a hint to aid the contestant in his or her wagering. Ringing inBefore the 1985–1986 season, contestants could ring in any time after the clue was revealed. Ever since, in order to give all three contestants a fair shot at the clue, players are required to wait until the host finishes reading the clue and the lights surrounding the board are illuminated before they can ring in. Pressing the signaling button too soon locks the player out for one quarter of a second. For easy clues, ringing in at the right moment is important, as it is presumed that all three contestants will be able to respond correctly. Many Jeopardy! players comment that the buzzer was the most important aspect of the show. PhrasingIn the Jeopardy! Round, players are not penalized for forgetting to phrase a response in the form of a question. (Trebek will give a reminder should a player not correct him- or herself before his or her time runs out after ringing in.) In the Double Jeopardy! Round, adherence to the phrasing rule is followed more strictly, but players are still often permitted to correct themselves before their time runs out. On occasion, players have couched their phrasing in languages other than English without penalty:
On at least one occasion, a contestant has responded with "Is that an..." instead of "What is an..." and was ruled correct[citation needed]. In a regular season game in 2000, contestant Jeremy Bate responded to a question asking for a certain British rock band with "Who?" and was ruled correct.[citation needed] On October 24,2006, contestant John Bowen was ruled correct with a response of "How about architect, now?" after using the aforementioned guess incorrectly earlier in the category.[4] In 1984, contestant Ron Black was given credit for a correct response with the question, "Would you believe Get Smart?"[citation needed] The Double Jeopardy! RoundThe second round, Double Jeopardy!, works like the first round, with the following exceptions:
Finishing Double Jeopardy! with $0 (or less)Sometimes, contestants will finish Double Jeopardy! with either $0 or a negative score. If that happens, they are automatically eliminated from the game and not allowed to participate in the game's final round, Final Jeopardy! In this case, the contestants still receive consolation prizes, which (as of 2002) are $1,000 for third place and $2,000 for second place. In Celebrity Jeopardy!, contestants are allowed to participate in Final Jeopardy! under all circumstances, and such contestants are granted nominal scores with which to wager for Final Jeopardy! (as the celebrity contestants are competing on behalf of charitable foundations, rather than personal gain). Usually, it is only one contestant (if any) that is eliminated before Final Jeopardy! However, on rare occasions, two contestants have been disqualified from playing, leaving the first-place player to provide a question to the Final Jeopardy! answer alone. The last show where two contestants finished in the red aired on February 23, 2005 during the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (only Jeff Richmond advanced to Final Jeopardy!).[5] In the 1984 syndicated version, there has never been an instance where all three contestants finished Double Jeopardy! with $0 or less, thereby disqualifying everyone from Final Jeopardy! A three-way disqualification from Final Jeopardy! did happen at least once on the 1964 NBC version sometime between 1968 and 1975. During the commercial break between Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy!, an audience member suggested that they could simply replay the game (with different categories) as if the embarrassing result had never happened. But the staff onstage said that this was not permitted by NBC's rules. The time normally used to play Final Jeopardy! was filled with chitchat between Art Fleming and the contestants. For the following telecast, three new contestants were featured. The Final Jeopardy! RoundIn the Final Jeopardy! Round, the host first announces the category, then the show goes into a commercial break (during which the staff comes on stage and advises the contestants while barriers are placed between the players to discourage looking at one another's answers). The contestants then risk as little as $0 or as much money as they have accumulated, by writing it on a card (before 1979) or electronic tablet (since 1984). After the final commercial break, the Final Jeopardy! clue is revealed and read by the host, following which contestants have 30 seconds to write a response on a card/electronic drawing board, again phrased in the form of a question. The light pen is automatically cut off at the end of the 30 seconds (this was not the case during the first syndicated season; because a number of contestants went overtime, leading to judgement dilemmas if their response was correct, the second season saw the addition of an electronic switch to Trebek's podium, which allowed him to turn the light pens on and off at the appropriate times). With rare exception, the "Think!" music is played during this 30-second period. Other Final Jeopardy! response methods are occasionally used:
As with the rest of the show, Final Jeopardy! responses must be phrased in the form of a question. During the first two seasons, a few contestants lost their games solely because they had forgotten to do this. As losing a game because of forgetting two words made for bad television, contestants have been instructed to write the appropriate preface (What is, Who is, etc.) of their Final Jeopardy! responses during the commercial break after the Double Jeopardy! Round since the beginning of the 1986–1987 season. Cash prizesThe top money-winner at the end of Final Jeopardy! is the day's champion and returns to the next show. The value of the theoretical maximum one-day winnings is $566,400 ($28,320 from 1964-1975 and $283,200 from 1984-2001), provided:
The highest possible Coryat score (not counting wagering: Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy!) is $54,000. During the 1964 NBC and 1974 syndicated versions, all three contestants kept whatever cash they won. On the syndicated once-a-version, the winner also received a bonus prize or cash (see entry in "Other versions" for more information). Starting in 1984, rather than receiving their scores in cash, runners-up were awarded consolation prizes; typically, a vacation package for the second-place player and merchandise for the third-place player. This changed on May 16,2002; thereafter, the second-place finisher was awarded $2,000 and the third place finisher was awarded $1,000. Since the show did not provide airfare or lodging for challengers (airfare was provided for returning champions' subsequent flights to L.A.), these cash consolation prizes alleviated the financial burden of appearing on the show. The greatest amount won by an individual in a day was $75,000, by Ken Jennings, on July 23, 2004.[6] Special cases
Image:3waytie.jpeg The final scores of the episode of Jeopardy! that was broadcast on March 16, 2007. The three contestants finished with identical final scores of $16,000.
CategoriesSome categories have special rules pertaining to them. In each case, contestants and viewers are told the specific format required to get the clue correct. Image:Tv jeopardy category.jpg One of the categories on Jeopardy! on May 25, 2005. Recurring categories are:
Other versions1974-75 weekly syndicated versionThe game was essentially the same as the NBC version, but with several notable changes/additions:
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However, it failed to catch on in the ratings and was cancelled after only one season (it could also be argued that this version was little more than an attempt to keep the show going, with its cancellation by NBC just around the corner). The All-New Jeopardy!During the short-lived 1978–79 series, the lowest-scoring contestant was eliminated after the Jeopardy! Round; whoever was ahead at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round became the champion. Instead of Final Jeopardy!, the winner then got to play a bonus round called Super Jeopardy! (no relation to the special summer 1990 tournament of all-time champions as aired on ABC). This round featured a new board of five categories with five clues in each, numbered 1–5 (and unlike the main game, not necessarily increasing in difficulty down the column). The object was for the contestant to provide any five correct responses in a straight line in a Bingo-like fashion (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). Giving an incorrect response, or a pass, earned the player a "strike," and blocked off that space on the board; three strikes ended the round. Super Jeopardy! was worth $5,000 to a first-day champion, with the jackpot increasing by $2,500 each day that champion successfully defended his/her title; with the five-day limit in place, that meant a potential total of $50,000 in just Super Jeopardy! earnings ($5,000 + $7,500 + $10,000 + $12,500 + $15,000). If a player struck out, he/she still received $100 for each correct response given. This bonus game proved rather unpopular among long-time fans of the show, and some critics allege that its inclusion, and the gameplay's elimination structure, doomed the revival to failure. Two sound effects from this version carried over to Sale of the Century in the 1980s: the correct response bell (a high-pitched ding) and the Daily Double bell, a Family Feud-esque series of dings. Rock & Roll Jeopardy!Rock & Roll Jeopardy! was a music-intensive version of Jeopardy! that aired on VH1 from 1998 to 2001. Hosted by Jeff Probst, clues on this version of the show highlighted post-1950s popular music trivia. Though the host was somewhat looser with the "phrase in the form of a question" requirement, the gameplay was basically identical to Jeopardy! The first two seasons awarded $5,000 to the winner; subsequent seasons were played for a $5,000 house minimum. Jep!Jep! was the children's version of Jeopardy!, hosted by cartoon voice artist Bob Bergen. The show aired in 1998 on Game Show Network (now GSN), and up to late 2004 on Discovery Kids. The show was not well received by fans or critics, and was cancelled after one season. Starting in 1999, just after Jep!'s cancellation, Jeopardy! began a "Back-to-School Week", which has easier clues and more accessible material for the younger contestants, but is otherwise identical to the adult version. Returning championsImage:KenJennings.jpg Ken Jennings holds the record for the longest Jeopardy! winning streak. For the first six seasons, winning contestants kept all winnings, with a cap of $75,000. Anything won above $75,000 went to the champion's favorite charity. The cap was increased to $100,000 starting in Season 7 after Bob Blake ($82,501) and Frank Spangenberg ($102,597) exceeded the $75,000 cap. In Seasons 14-19 the cap was raised to $200,000. The cap was eliminated altogether at the beginning of Season 20. From Season 14 to Season 17, an undefeated champion would also be awarded a choice of Chevrolet cars or trucks (Corvette, Tahoe, or two Camaros). From Season 18 to Season 19, the winner won a Jaguar X-Type. Similarly, as part of the deal with Ford Motor Company for the 2001–02 season, Ford also added a Volvo to the Teen Tournament prize package. Until Season 20 of the Trebek version of the show, a contestant who won five days in a row would be retired undefeated, with a guaranteed spot in the next Tournament of Champions. To mark the start of the current version's 20th season, in September 2003, the show changed its rules so there is no winnings limit, and champions' reigns became indefinite; a champion keeps coming back as long as (s)he keeps winning (although automobiles were no longer awarded for five wins). This rule change led to the remarkable winning streak of Ken Jennings, who currently holds most of the winning records on the show, including greatest number of appearances and regular season highest total dollar amounts won (excluding tournaments). TournamentsThe Tournament of ChampionsBeginning with the 2nd season of the Alex Trebek syndicated version, a Tournament of Champions (ToC) has been held more or less annually, featuring five-time undefeated champions and other biggest winners to have appeared on the show since the last ToC. The ToC format was devised by Alex Trebek, and was as follows: Fifteen players—five-time champions, and, if there are fewer than 15 five-time champions who have not yet played in a ToC, the highest scorers among the other game winners are invited to participate. The ToC lasts two weeks (10 shows), in the following manner:
The Art Fleming eraThe structure of the annual best-of-the-best tournaments during the Fleming era differed from the Tournament of Champions of today. A one-week tournament was held consisting of nine undefeated champions since the last TOC. The first or elimination round was held over the first three days, with three champions appearing each day. The winners from each day advanced to the final round which was held over the course of two days. In those matches, the winner won $25,000 and a trophy and was crowned "Grand Champion".[citation needed] Eleven Grand Champions were crowned during the 11-year NBC run.[citation needed] The Teen TournamentFirst aired in 1987, this tournament features high school students, with the winner receiving a cash prize ($75,000 in the most recent years), and, in some years, a new car. Until 2001, the winner was also invited to participate in the Tournament of Champions. One of the most notable Teen Tournament champions was Eric Newhouse, who advanced to the finals of the 1989 Tournament of Champions, was a finalist in the Million Dollar Masters tournament, and participated in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. The College ChampionshipBeginning in 1989 and featuring college students, the College Championship pitted 15 full-time undergraduate students from colleges and universities in the United States against each other in a two-week tournament, identical to the ToC in format. Beginning in 1997, the College Championship has been taped at host college campus using the show's traveling set. The winner earns $100,000, a trophy, and a spot in the next Tournament of Champions. (Tom Cubbage, the very first Jeopardy! college champion, also won his Tournament of Champions the following season.) The Seniors TournamentBetween 1987 and 1995, the show held 10 Seniors Tournaments for contestants over the age of 50. This tournament was discontinued after December 1995, purportedly due to advertisers wanting to pull in younger demographics. Special non tournament playCelebrity Jeopardy!Every so often (usually once a year), celebrity weeks are held in which the contestants are celebrities. Each celebrity chooses a charity (or two) to sponsor, and that charity is the recipient of the particular celebrity's winnings. Typically, each charity is guaranteed a certain amount ($20,000, e.g.), with the winner's charity receiving a larger amount ($50,000, e.g.). Contestants ending the Double Jeopardy! Round with a zero or negative score, who in regular play games would be disqualified from playing Final Jeopardy!, are given a nominal score with which to wager ($5,000, e.g.). Regis Philbin and Carol Burnett have made the most appearances on Celebrity Jeopardy!, with three appearances. Kids Week, Holiday Kids Week, and Back to School WeekFeaturing children ages 10 through 12, usually broadcast from the show's main studio in Culver City, though on one occasion, Kids Week was filmed in Washington, D.C.'s DAR Constitution Hall. Kids Week features five independent shows, three contestants in each. Unlike the regular Jeopardy! format, the winner of each game does not go on to play another game. The third place winner receives $1,000, second place receives $2,000, and first place wins the amount of his or her score, with a minimum guarantee of $10,000. Additional prizes for all players, such as computers, gift certificates, and trips to local theme parks have been common in the past. Special tournamentsThere have been a number of special tournaments featuring the greatest players during the history of Jeopardy! These are listed below. Super Jeopardy!The first of these "all-time best" tournaments, Super Jeopardy! aired in Summer 1990 on ABC. It featured top players during the first six years of the 1984 syndicated run, plus a notable champion from the original Fleming era. The tournament was similar to the Million Dollar Masters and Ultimate Tournament of Champions (see below), although it was on a much smaller scale than that tournament. The Super Jeopardy! tournament also featured 4 contestants per game (in the first round of the tournament) as opposed to the standard three, and the games were played for points instead of dollars. Bruce Seymour won the tournament and $250,000. Tenth Anniversary TournamentThe Tenth Anniversary Tournament was a short five-day tournament aired in 1993 following the conclusion of the regular Tournament of Champions. $100,000 Tournament winner Tom Nosek got a free pass into the tournament, the other eight spots were chosen randomly. The winner of each of the last five regular season games drew one name from each of eight bowls representing the second through ninth seasons of Jeopardy!. Contestants who had made it to the semi-final round of that year's tournament were put in the bowl. Three regular semifinal matches were played, with the winners competing in a two-day final. Frank Spangenberg won the tournament with a two-game score of $16,800 plus a $25,000 bonus for a total of $41,800. Tom Nosek finished second with $13,600, and Leslie Frates won the $7,500 third place prize, which exceeded her score of $4,499. The semi-final losers were: Roy Holliday, Steve Rogitz, Mark McDermott, Doug Molitor, Robert Slaven and Lionel Goldbart, who each won $5,000. Teen Reunion TournamentIn November 1998, players from the 1987, 1988, and 1989 Teen Tournaments (including the champions) were invited to Boston to play in a special Teen Reunion Tournament of former players of the event. Eric Newhouse won the tournament and later found himself at two other special tournaments. Million Dollar MastersIn May 2002, to commemorate the Trebek version's 4,000th episode, the show invited fifteen champions to play for a $1 million bonus, under a standard tournament format. The tournament was won by Brad Rutter. Ultimate Tournament of ChampionsImage:Tv jeopardy jerome.jpg Brad Rutter is congratulated for his first place finish by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, at the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Jeopardy! televised the Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005. This tournament, which was the largest (and longest) in Jeopardy!'s history, pitted 144 former Jeopardy! champions against each other, with two winners moving on to face Ken Jennings in a 3-game final. The final winner was Brad Rutter ($62,000 for the tournament final), winning $2 million, the largest single-game prize in game show history. Jennings placed second (with $34,599) and took home $500,000. Jerome Vered finished third ($20,600), collecting $250,000. As a result, Rutter is the all-time highest winner of any game show with $3,270,102, with Jennings a close second with $3,022,700. Audition processThe Jeopardy! staff regularly offers auditions for potential contestants. Unlike the audition process for many game shows, the Jeopardy! process is in part merit-based, with 50-questions contestant tests administered at local audition sites and, as of 2006, over the Internet. Theme songs"Think!" (originally composed as "A Time for Tony" by Griffin as a lullaby for his son) has served the Final Jeopardy! countdown music since the show's inception in 1964 (although it was not used in the 1978–79 version), and is also the melody for the current opening theme. In the United States, it has insinuated itself into everyday communication; the song applies to any situation in which someone is waiting for another to answer a question or make a decision. For example, the theme is often heard at baseball stadiums when the manager goes to the pitcher's mound to discuss a replacement, or at football games during instant replay reviews, or on the Jerry Springer show, a parodied remix is heard when a choice has to be made. A variation of "Think!" was used as a jewelry prize cue, officially called "A Time for Tony," on Wheel of Fortune in the 1980s. Griffin has estimated that the Jeopardy! theme song has earned him somewhere between $70 and $80 million in royalties.[citation needed] The main theme song to the original NBC version is called "Take 10," a jazz number composed by Griffin's wife, Julann. On the final episode, however, Art Fleming walked off the set at the end of the show to the tune of "Smile," originally composed by Charlie Chaplin. As the song played, credits rolled over a shot of the darkened set, with no applause. The main theme to the 1978–1979 revival was called "Frisco Disco" and was composed by Merv Griffin and arranged by Mort Lindsey (the bandleader on Griffin's syndicated talk show). "Frisco Disco" would also resurface in 1983 as a prize cue on Wheel of Fortune, and would continue to be used until 1989. The opening theme used was called "January, February, March" also composed by Griffin and arranged by Lindsey, and was also used as the main theme on the first pilot of the Alex Trebek-hosted Jeopardy! in 1983. (Both themes were composed and released in 1976, two years prior to the revival of Jeopardy! in 1978.) After a second pilot was made with Alex Trebek in 1984, Jeopardy! went back on the air. An electronic version of the "Think!" melody became the main theme, while the original recording was recycled for the Final Jeopardy! Round. The main theme was remixed in 1991 to include a bongo track. In 1997, both the main theme and the "Think!" music were updated, with jazzy orchestral arrangements by Steve Kaplan. The main theme was updated again in 2000, with an arrangement similar to the previous one, but looser and more upbeat. The theme has gone through some slight re-orchestrations since then. The electric guitar-based theme from Rock & Roll Jeopardy! has been used on Jeopardy! leading into and out of commercial breaks during College Championships, Teen Tournaments, and November 2006 Celebrity Jeopardy! episodes. (During a few of those tournaments, it was also played during Final Jeopardy!) Alternate versions of the Final Jeopardy! music have been performed by the UCLA marching band (during the 2001 College Championship), the Yale Whiffenpoofs (during the 2003 College Championship), and organist Trent Johnson during the final Celebrity Jeopardy! show at Radio City Music Hall in 2006. During the show's first trip to New York City, a piano rendition was used. On at least one occasion, the "Think!" theme was not played at all during Final Jeopardy! Before, during, and after Alex Trebek's reading of the Final Jeopardy! clue for show #3985, aired Friday, December 21,2001, the L.A. Spirit Chorale sang a live, a cappella rendition of "Silent Night", with Clue Crew member Cheryl Farrell performing the solo. This appeared to confuse challenger Carly Minner, who looked up from her podium in surprise when it was announced that time had expired. The setLike the theme music, the Jeopardy! set has also changed over the years. The set currently in use is as of September 11, 2006. For a summary of changes to the set, see Jeopardy! set evolution. International adaptationsImage:Jeopardy world locations.PNG Countries with versions of Jeopardy!
In addition, the American version of the show is distributed internationally and airs across the world. In Canada, it airs on CTV, and Canadian residents are eligible to be contestants on the U.S. version. Jeopardy! has occasionally held international tournaments that allow the champions of each country's versions to compete with each other. Episode statusFleming era1964-1975It is believed that only a small number of 2,753 episodes from the original NBC Daytime version of Jeopardy! survive, mostly as black-and-white kinescopes of the original color videotapes. In all likelihood, the original tapes were wiped as they were recorded over by NBC with new programming in an era when videotape was an expensive commodity.
Some paper records of these games exist on microfilm at the Library of Congress. 1978-1979 revivalThe status of the 1978 version is unknown.
Trebek eraImage:1992-05-19Jeopardy!Season8LeaderCard.jpg Slate from a Season 8 broadcast Image:2007-01-11Season23Slate.jpg Slate from a Season 23 broadcast The Trebek version is completely intact. GSN—which like Jeopardy! is an affiliate of Sony Pictures Television—has rerun approximately 8 seasons to date, although they continuously aired the 1997–98 season (14th season) from June 2001 until June 13, 2005. Since then, GSN has been rerunning episodes from the 2001–02 season (Season 18), including a series of 2001 episodes which aired only on about 50 syndicated stations due to the September 11, 2001 attacks.[citation needed] Interestingly, when Jeopardy! was named #2 on GSN's 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time, no episode was shown. There exists a 66 game disparity between the show numbers assigned new Jeopardy! episodes and the actual number of Trebek-era games played. To assist subscribing affiliate stations in airing episodes in the correct order, a show number is read by announcer Johnny Gilbert just prior to the taping of each game; this number is audible on the episodes as received by the affiliates, and visible on the slate attached to them, but the slate is trimmed from the show prior to broadcast. Each new episode receives an integer episode number 1 greater than the previous episode. However, all 65 reruns in Season 1 (1984-1985) were given new show numbers despite not being new games, and a retrospective clip show that aired May 15, 2002 was also given a show number (#4088). As such, the game with show number #5000 aired on May 12, 2006,[9] but the 5,000th game hosted by Alex Trebek did not air until September 25,2006. Jeopardy! in popular cultureThe show has been portrayed or parodied in numerous television shows, films, and works of literature over the years, frequently with one or more characters participating as contestants, or as a television show the character(s) watch and play along with. Three cultural references stand out among the most popular, having been referenced, in turn, in categories, clues, or interview segments on Jeopardy! itself:
MerchandisingThe Jeopardy! brand has been used on products in several other formats.
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