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It ran until January 1975, with a brief revival in 1978/79 (also hosted by Fleming, but announced by John Harlan) that had somewhat different rules.After two pilots, ''Jeopardy!'' came back in 1984 with host Creator/AlexTrebek, announcer Johnny Gilbert (both LongRunners on the show) and much higher cash awards. This version has far outlasted the original, starting its 31st season in September 2014. Other than a few cosmetic changes, the doubling of dollar amounts, and the five-day championship limit becoming a "sky's the limit" policy, the format is almost entirely unchanged.Three {{Spin Off}}s have aired over time. In summer 1990, Creator/{{ABC}} aired a 13-episode tournament of champions titled ''Super Jeopardy!'', which was paired with another of Griffin's creations, a game show version of ''Series/{{Monopoly}}''. Creator/{{GSN}} also ran a children's version called ''Jep!'' from 1998 to 2000, and Creator/VH1 created a rock music-themed version called ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'' which aired from 1998 to 2001. A number of countries produce local versions of the show with few changes, including keeping the title [[ArtifactTitle even if it makes no sense in their language]]. A fourth spinoff, ''Sports Jeopardy!'' (hosted by Dan Patrick, a former {{ESPN}}/current NBC Sports Network and radio sportscaster), debuted on the online video portal {{Crackle}} in fall 2014.Often aired in an hour block with sister show ''Series/WheelOfFortune''.Interestingly, the answer-and-question concept is OlderThanTheyThink, as it had previously been used for Gil Fates' ''Series/CBSTelevisionQuiz'' (1941/42).----!!Here are your categories:* BonusRound: Two were used.** The Jackpot Board: Used for the first half of the 1974-1975 syndicated version, the winner selected a number off the board from 1-30, revealing a bonus prize (car, trip, more cash), or half of "$25,000" (which earned one more pick to find the other half).** Super Jeopardy!: Not to be confused with the 1990 tournament, this was basically J! Bingo; five categories, must make a line across/up and down/diagonally before getting three wrong. $100/pop, a win earns a ProgressiveJackpot.* BonusSpace: The Daily Doubles. Also the very short-lived Bonus categories listed below.* ComplacentGamingSyndrome:[[invoked]]** Sometimes present in the Fleming era, which paid full winnings to all contestants, win or lose; some contestants intentionally stopped ringing in if they felt that they had earned enough money, or if an opponent had picked up an insurmountable lead. The Trebek era gave this an ObviousRulePatch by offering the full winnings only to the winner, to create more of an incentive to compete. Losing contestants initially got parting gifts, but starting on May 16, 2002 second and third place win a flat $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.** There's also the fact that the vast majority of contestants pick clues from top to bottom within each category, even in cases where it might be advisable to do otherwise (for example, if Alex has said "Less than a minute" and several high-value clues are still on the board and/or a Daily Double hasn't yet been uncovered — the Daily Doubles are almost never in the top two rows).*** '''Even better''': As soon as a contestant named Arthur Chu avoided this, the media called him out despite his strategy still following the rules of the game.** 9 times out of 10, the leader going into Final Jeopardy will wager $xx01, so if both he and the second-place player get it right and second place wagers everything, he wins by one measly dollar. For example if second place had $7,000 and first place had $12,400, you can expect the leader to wager $1,601.* ConsolationPrize:** In the original Fleming era, all contestants received their cash earnings win or lose; however, contestants who finished with $0 or a negative score received parting gifts. ** In the Trebek era, only the winning contestant received his or her cash winnings. Initially, departing contestants received non-monetary prizes, usually a vacation package for second and merchandise for third; however, starting in 2002, second and third place received a flat $2,000 and $1,000, respectively.* DoubleTheDollars: Double Jeopardy! and, of course, the Daily Double.** Also when the clue values doubled in 2001.* GameShowAppearance: [[Series/{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]], [[Series/TheCarolBurnettShow Thelma]] [[Series/MamasFamily Harper]], [[Series/TheNanny Fran Fine]], [[Film/WhiteMenCantJump Gloria Clemente]], and [[WesternAnmation/PinkyAndTheBrain Brain]] all played on ''Jeopardy!'', [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Dorothy Zbornak]] tried out for it, [[Series/{{Ellen}} Ellen DeGeneres]] and Jamie Lee Curtis played in dream sequences in Epcot's Universe of Energy, and [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Rose Nylund]] also in a dream sequence. Heck, even ''[[Series/TheLateLateShow Craig Ferguson]]'' did a sketch!** Also the premise of Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "I Lost on Jeopardy", which took place during the original Art Fleming era. The music video not only had a pretty accurate reproduction of that set, but both Fleming and announcer Don Pardo came along for the ride, 14 weeks before the Trebek era launched.*** Al later appeared on a celebrity edition of ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!''...and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy lost]]. Guess what song was played over the end credits?*** Art Fleming and the ''Jeopardy!'' board make a cameo in ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel''.* GameShowWinningsCap: Until 2003, contestants could only stay on for five days and win up to $75,000 (later $100,000), with the excess donated to a charity of the contestant's choice. Since then, a contestant can stay on so long as s/he keeps winning, and keep ''all'' winnings. Shortly after the cap was removed, Ken Jennings ran for 75 games (74 wins and then his defeat by Nancy Zerg).** ''Jeopardy!'' is far more lenient than ''WheelOfFortune'' when it comes to making a repeat appearance (as in, they'll actually '''let you play again''') — if you've already appeared on a version hosted by Alex Trebek, you're ineligible (except for tournaments, of course, and the occasional re-invite for special circumstances like a clue error that affected the outcome, or the games with IBM's Watson). Otherwise, you're good to go!* GoldenSnitch: Played with. In theory, Final Jeopardy can result in people doubling their money or losing everything. It is, however, rather common for Double Jeopardy to end with second place having less than half of the leader's score. The leader can simply bet nothing and be guaranteed a victory.* HomeGame: Several board games, video game versions as early as the NES (an Atari 2600 version was planned shortly before [[TheGreatVideogameCrashOf1983 the market crashed]]), and several PC versions as well. {{THQ}} released Wii versions of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''WheelOfFortune'' in 2010, and again for multiple systems in 2012. There's also a school version that uses a dedicated console and allows custom answers and images to be used. Modified scoring calculators are also sold which allow playing along with the actual show.** Milton Bradley's home game merely reused the plastic board from its ''Series/{{Concentration}}'' home games and tinted the window red. As such, only five categories could be played per round and one window in Double Jeopardy! had to be reserved for Final.** Around 1990, there was also a premium-rate HomeParticipationSweepstakes phone-in version known as "Phone ''Jeopardy!''" (''Wheel'' had one, too). * Personnel:** TheAnnouncer: Noted game show announcer Don Pardo announced the first two Fleming versions, with John Harlan behind the mic on the 1978-79 revival. Jay Stewart of ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'' fame announced the 1983 pilot, and Johnny Gilbert both the second pilot and every Trebek episode. [[note]](On the very rare instance that Johnny misses a taping, he's dubbed in post.)[[/note]] Loretta Fox announced the first two seasons of ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'', with Stew Herrera taking over for the last two. Clue Crew member Kelly Miyahara announces ''Sports Jeopardy!''** GameShowHost: Art Fleming's biggest role, without a doubt, was this. This is also Trebek's biggest role, but unlike Fleming, Alex has several other shows to his name (''The Wizard of Odds'', ''Series/HighRollers'', ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'', ''Series/{{Battlestars}}'', ''Series/{{Concentration}}''). Voice actor Creator/BobBergen (the voice of Porky Pig since MelBlanc's death) hosted ''Jep!'', Jeff Probst hosted ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'' before he would become known for ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', and sportscaster Dan Patrick hosts ''Sports Jeopardy!''** LovelyAssistant: Sort of. The show makes frequent use of the Clue Crew, three assistants (down from five) who provide pre-recorded visuals related to the clue.** StudioAudience* RetiredGameShowElement: During Season 14 (1997-1998), the show briefly tried "bonus" categories — clues with two correct responses. If a contestant gave one response, s/he could try for the second response for the same amount of money, or leave the second one free for another contestant to ring in. It only lasted from December 1997 to February 1998, and even then was used in only ''three'' games.* ThinkMusic: The 30-second melody used during Final Jeopardy (which is actually called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGhvoekY44 Think!]]") may be the best known example in the genre. ''TV Guide'' called it "the ''Beethoven's Fifth'' of game show music."----!!I'll take Trope Examples for $200, Alex:* AffectionateParody: ''SesameStreet'' of all things. Complete with a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of "Think!", Alex Trebek played host of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzJgs-XAcPo Special of the Day]]", with Telly Monster as the contestant.* AmericanAccents: Don Pardo had a New England accent (he was from Massachusetts), and Newport News native Johnny Gilbert has a Tidewater one.* AprilFoolsDay: In 1997, Pat Sajak hosted that day's ''Jeopardy!'' while Alex hosted the day's ''WheelOfFortune'' (which also had Pat and Vanna as contestants, and Pat's wife at the puzzle board). ''Jeopardy!'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the switch by including ''Wheel''-themed category names in Round 1, and "Amateur Trinidadian Icthyologists" as the Final Jeopardy! category.** Years after shaving his mustache, Alex wore a phony one for the Jeopardy! round on April Fools Day, 2008.* ArtificialStupidity: In the IBM Challenge (February 2011), Watson had a few cases where its imposing intelligence faltered.** In one instance, Ken Jennings got an answer wrong. Immediately afterward, Watson buzzed in with the same answer. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Watson was technically blind and deaf — the programmers didn't bother with visual or voice recognition. It was merely an analytical machine based on information through text received electronically.** The programmers had Watson put very low weight on categories as a clue to the answer itself. As a result...*** In the category regarding decades in history, part of the clue mentioned a flight at Kitty Hawk. Watson guessed 1920. [[spoiler:The answer was 1900s]].*** In the first day Final Jeopardy round, the category was U.S. Cities. The clue was a city with an airport named after a famous World War II battle and combatant. Watson guessed Toronto ([[spoiler:The answer was Chicago]]). However, the programmers suggested that there were so many contextual ambiguities that Watson simply was confused, as there are cities in the US named Toronto, and Toronto in Canada has a US Baseball team (The Blue Jays). In light of this, Trebek (a Canadian native) jokingly remarked that he learned that Toronto is now a U.S. city and one of the producers wore a Blue Jays jersey.*** Watson also placed a large number of question marks after this answer, which is apparently a gauge of how "unsure" it was about the answer. So the computer knew the answer was probably wrong, it just couldn't come up with anything better.*** In the "Literary APB" category, the clue made it very obvious that it was looking for the main villain of the ''Harry Potter'' franchise (who is [[spoiler:Voldermort]]?). Watson was stumped — it figured out that it was being asked for a ''Harry Potter'' character, but because it wasn't putting much weight on category name and didn't seem to make the connection that [=APBs=] are only issued for criminals, it couldn't figure out ''which'' character it was being asked for.*** The "Also on your computer keys" category tripped Watson up really badly. In fact, it was the only category where Watson got the wrong answer for ''every single question''.* AscendedExtra: During a Fleming-era celebrity week in April 1974, one of the guests was a young Canadian named Alex Trebek.** Merv Griffin tapped Mike Reilly, a losing contestant from a November 1989 episode, to host his 1990 game show adaptation of ''Series/{{Monopoly}}''. [[OneBookAuthor It remains, to date, Reilly's only TV gig.]]** Despite only being a 3 day champion during her December 1996 run on Jeopardy! (and not qualifying for the next Tournament of Champions), Gay Mollette was invited as the American representative during the next year's International Jeopardy! tournament, surprisingly instead of 1996 TOC winner Michael Dupee (possibly averted if he couldn't make the trip to Sweden for the event, but Gay could.) She didn't advance to the finals though, which were won by Canada's Michael Daunt, a 1996 TOC finalist.** After 5 day champion Barbara Lowe's removal from the 1986 Tournament of Champions field for violating contestant eligibility requirements, 4 day champion Gary Palmer made the tournament in her place, despite winning just $18,400. He had a good run though, giving eventual finalist Marvin Shinkman a late challenge in the semifinals.** As 2001 College Champion Vinita Kailasanath was unable to attend the next Tournament of Champions in 2003, her spot instead went to 4 day champion Kathy Cassity, making her the first ever TOC qualifier from Hawaii (Vinita would eventually compete in the 2004 TOC, making the semifinals.)** Similarly, 2008 College Champion Joey Beachum couldn't attend 2009's TOC, with his spot going to 4 day champion Deborah Fitzgerald in what would be the first Tournament of Champions with ''no'' regular annual tournament winners since the show introduced them in 1987. Joey would compete in 2010's TOC, which uniquely featured ''three'' College Champions.** Due to 5 day champion Jerry Slowik's legal issues, he was replaced in the 2014 Tournament of Champions by 4 day champion Mark Japinga, becoming the only regular play competitor in the field who hadn't won at least 5 games. He too performed well, leading through all of Double Jeopardy! in his quarterfinal game, and advancing to the semifinals as a wild card, though he met his end there via finalist Arthur Chu.* AscendedMeme: One Double Jeopardy! round had categories that all referred to the Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', including "Creator/SeanConnery", "Surprise Me, Trebek", "Therapists"[[labelnote:Alex's aside]]Not "The Rapists"[[/labelnote]], "The Number After 2", and "Rhymes With 'Dog'". Other categories from the sketch (including "Japan-U.S. Relations" and "Things You Shouldn't Put in Your Mouth" (a category about poisons)) have made appearances on the show as well.* AsianAndNerdy: Kelly Miyahara of the Clue Crew, also the announcer of ''Sports Jeopardy!''** 2011 champion and Tournament of Champions competitor Joon Pahk, a regular poster to the show's unofficial forums, and one of only 9 ''Jeopardy!'' contestants to win over $200,000 in regular games.** Arthur Chu, who is one of only four contestants to make it into double-digit winning game territory, and was a finalist in the 2014 Tournament of Champions** Bruce Ikawa, whose $80,699 total as a 5 day champion in November 1990 was the third highest in ''Jeopardy!'' regular play history at that time, and is 10th under the show's original dollar amounts.** 2001 5 day champion and Tournament of Champions semifinalist Lan Djang, who later made the quarterfinals in 2005's Ultimate Tournament of Champions* AutoTune: PlayedForLaughs on the June 23, 2010 show, which had the category "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4E1cx2J44 Alex Meets Auto-Tune]]".* BadassBoast: On the eve of his preliminary match in the Battle of the Decades, Ken Jennings said of his opponents, "They actually think they can win." He backed it up with a lock-win.* BadassBookworm: Let's just say you have to be one to win big on Jeopardy.* BadassMustache: Trebek had one of these until 2001. [[WordOfGod He later said]] that he shaved it off on a whim, and decided to leave it off because nobody noticed. But possibly because it's so iconic and recognizable, most modern depictions in the media (such as a ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' arc in late 2010, where one of the crocs plays ''Jeopardy!'') still show him with the 'stache. On yet another whim, he's [[http://mashable.com/2014/09/10/alex-trebek-mustache/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link grown back the 'stache]] for Season 31, and the world breathes a sigh of relief... only to see him shave the stache off yet again.** And [[RuleOfFunny as a joke]], one of the categories on the episode he first appeared shaven was a visual clue category with pictures of his iconic mustache in places that the contestants had to guess.** 1990 5-time champion [[http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=262 Frank Spangenberg]], who was the show's top regular-games winner, and at one point, the biggest 1-day winner, in the pre-doubled era (1984-2001).[[note]]Even adjusted into present values, his score still stands among 5-time champions.[[/note]]** 1992 5-time champion Jerome Vered, who was the second-biggest regular games winner after Spangenberg in the pre-doubled era, shattering the aforementioned 1-day record set by Frank, as well as finishing 3rd in both the 1992 Tournament of Champions and the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions.* BadassNormal: Ken Jennings, to some — a shy, nerdy Mormon who just happened to know ''every''thing (including quite a bit about alcohol). Well, everything except [[spoiler:H&R Block]]. Others, however, see him as a BoringInvincibleHero.* BashBrothers: Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, the two super-champions who have each won over $3,000,000 on ''Jeopardy!'' In contrast, no other human contestant has ever won even $1,000,000. Elite though they may be at trivia, the real skill comes from their reaction times and wagering skills. The IBM Challenge proved they were both [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} equally inferior to computers]], even managing to bust Rutter's no-loss ''Jeopardy!'' record, though The IBM Challenge is officially an exhibition.* BootstrappedTheme: This show has quite possibly the most well-known game show theme ever, the "Think!" music was originally just used for the Final Jeopardy question rather than the opening of the show itself. (In a lesser example of this trope, the 1978-79 version's opening theme was used as a prize cue on ''WheelOfFortune'' for several seasons.)* BowChickaWowWow: Used to set the mood for "The Sexiest Potpourri Category Ever". * BrickJoke: Some RuleOfFunny categories will have counterparts in the Double Jeopardy! round; for instance, on the January 18th, 2011 show, the sixth category in the first round was "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Team Jacob]]" and the sixth category of Double Jeopardy! was titled "[[ShipToShipCombat Team Edward]]".* TheCameo: It's not uncommon to see sitting and former Presidents, Vice Presidents, First Ladies, and other notable members of the White House participating via giving clues for a category at least a couple of times a year, as well as other high-profile celebs and figures like Oprah Winfrey. * CanadaEh: Alex still has a bit of Canadian accent, most notably in how he says "sorry" and "dollar" with long O sounds, and pronounces "produce" as "praw-duce".* CanonDiscontinuity: 1990's ''Super Jeopardy!'' tournament on ABC is not considered canon when Jeopardy! tabulates contestant winnings and records, though whether it's due to its special rules & scoring, its overall success, or not taking place during the regular syndicated run is up for debate. Notably, Bruce Seymour (who won the $250,000 ''Super Jeopardy!'' top prize) wasn't considered the modern show's all-time winnings leader (Chuck Forrest, Bob Blake, and Robin Carroll instead led in winnings before Brad Rutter took the record on any level in 2002), and as Seymour was only a four day champion and Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist in regular play, he has never been invited back for later best-of tournaments.* CatchPhrase: "Let's make this a true Daily Double" and "I'll take [category] for [dollar amount], Alex".* CelebrityEdition: One of the most famous in the game show industry. The concept is well-known through ''SaturdayNightLive'''s "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches, with Creator/WillFerrell as Trebek. Variants featuring politicians and newsmakers have also been held under the "Power Players Week" branding.* ClipShow: Fleming #2,753, plus Trebek #3,000 and #4,000. The first two had the clips interspersed amongst the gameplay, while #4,000 was purely a clip show.* CompoundTitle: Sometimes, the categories for each show may be related to each other (for example, in episode 4456, Genesis, In the Big Inning, God, Created, The Heavens, and The "Earth") even if the actual questions aren't.* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Averted with Watson (IBM Computer), who is not connected to the internet (or the outside world in any way) when competing, relying on his data in memory[[note]]Although considering his data memory [[NoExceptYes consisted largely of Wikipedia]]...[[/note]].** It still turned into a CurbStompBattle in short order, however, largely because ComputersAreFast.* CrosswordPuzzle: A recurring category is "Crossword Clues [letter]", where the clues are phrased as crossword puzzle clues (e.g. Object that you might find hanging around TV Tropes (9).[[labelnote:Response]]What is a lampshade?[[/labelnote]]).* CurbStompBattle: A "Celebrity" episode with Andy Richter and Wolf Blitzer from September 2009. The score as they were going into Final Jeopardy! Andy, $39,000; Wolf, '''-$4,600'''. (In celebrity tournaments, any celeb with a negative score is automatically given $1,000 to participate in Final Jeopardy!) Andy would end up with ''$68,000'', among the best one day scores on ''any'' episode of ''Jeopardy'' This is perhaps even more awesome when you consider that the ''comedian'' is beating the living crap out of the ''journalist'', but considering that he won a lock Celebrity Jeopardy game in 1999 as well, it could be expected.** The majority of Ken Jennings & Brad Rutter's games were these, which helps explain why they've won millions of dollars through the show and related tournaments.** Thanks to jumping across categories, hunting for Daily Doubles in the higher dollar amounts from the bottom up, and often going all in on Daily Doubles, notable Jeopardy! contestants like Roger Craig & Arthur Chu made a habit of curb stomping contestants during their runs on the show. However, the high risk of this gameplay strategy backfired on both in later tournaments.** Mark [=McGrath=]'s (of Music/SugarRay) appearances on ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'', where it became less of a game and more of "How much will he win by?" (even voiced by his opponents themselves). Say what you will about Sugar Ray, but the man knows his rock and roll inside and out.** Dave Mustaine of Music/{{Megadeth}}. The first video is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEeltcdnns here.]]. Like Mark above, he has an ''incredible'' knowledge of music (fellow contestant Moon Unit Zappa even comments at one point "How do you even ''know'' that?"). Any fan of Megadeth would know Dave is an incredibly intelligent person, but anyone who just saw him as some kind of dumb metal guy would probably be surprised how he runs away with the game.** The first game of the two-game IBM Challenge (February 14-15, 2011). The IBM Watson computer finished with $35,734 (even after a wrong Final Jeopardy answer). Ken Jennings ($4,800) and Brad Rutter ($10,400), Jeopardy's two most successful players, weren't even as close as the score made it seem -- they both doubled up in Final Jeopardy.** In the [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3599 March 16, 2011]] game, Tom Kunzen, the returning champion, absolutely ''owned'' his opponents who struggled to even remain on the plus side: the scores at the end of DJ! were $29,200 for Tom and -$3,600 and -$1,400 for his opponents respectively, leading to only the fifth (at least) single-player Final Jeopardy! in the Trebek era.** Harking back to the original NBC version, one of the era's most biggest winners was Burns Cameron, who won a record $11,000 during his five-day romp. In one game, he played against two contestants who were said to be inebriated during their show; they were so drunk they struggled to even press the lock-out buzzer (leading Cameron to at times intentionally delay ringing in to give his opponents a chance to answer). Needless to say, he was the only one around for "Final Jeopardy!"* DeadpanSnarker: Who is Alex Trebek?* DeathOrGloryAttack: A True Daily Double late in Double Jeopardy, which is Roger Craig's signature strategy. Get it right, and you double your score, potentially securing victory or denying an opponent a lock-win. Miss, and you drop to $0 without enough time to recover.* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Many champions and contestants who have played against each other have become friends over the years. Further reinforced by the Championship games, where Alex and the contestants - most defeated by each other - chat on old times.* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:** The name of a category on [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3495 November 3, 2010]], where each correct response contained or completed a phrase with the same word twice.** July 17, 2013: Jimmy [=McGuire=] of the clue crew announced "Vietnamese Water Puppets--The Water Puppets of Vietnam" as one of the category titles.* DoItYourselfThemeTune: On the original version, Merv Griffin composed both the theme tune and the think music. When the revival was made in 1984, the think music ''became'' the theme tune, and is still in use to this day.* DownerEnding: Trebek's second episode. All three players ended Final Jeopardy! with scores of $0 after giving the same incorrect day the 20th Century began — all three responded with "January 1, 1900"... but the correct response was January 1, 190''1''.** If no contestant on Jeopardy! finishes with a positive total, three new contestants compete on the next show. Overall, this has happened in the Trebek era at least six times. It's uncertain how many times this occurred in the Fleming era but on one episode he hosted, all three contestants were ''disqualified'' before Final Jeopardy! There was no Final Jeopardy! clue so Fleming spent the rest of the show chatting with the contestants.** It happened for the first time in a tournament setting during the 2013 Teen Tournament. During the second semifinal game, all 3 players had the same incorrect response in Final Jeopardy, with all 3 wagering everything, thus no player won. Since the finalists were determined by semifinal wins, the remaining finalists were the 2 subsequent winners and a wildcard picked from the remaining semifinalists (Leonard Cooper, who ended up winning the tournament.)* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first episodes in 1964 had a slightly different board (with the category titles located above ''and below'' the dollar amounts) and different contestant podiums (the score displays were directly in the middle, while the nameplates were on top). By mid-1965, the lower category displays had been removed and the contestant podiums reworked into the form used for the rest of the run. See also ObviousRulePatch, below.** The first Trebek season, for that matter. Contestants could ring in as soon as the clue was revealed; Alex would often add chatter about each clue; there was applause after nearly every right answer and "ooh"s after wrong ones; and of course, a RulesSpiel before each round. Small wonder that they never once cleared the board in the first season.** The shots of the clues would rotate between the now-familiar full-screen zoom of the text and an actual shot of the monitor where the text was displayed. Eventually the latter was phased out.* EpicFail:** February 27, 1986: ''Thirteen'' of the clues in Double Jeopardy! stump all three players. Between that and a lot of wrong answers, two of the three players are in the red. As a result, the only player with money flies solo in Final Jeopardy!** November 19, 1986: During a Tournament of Champions semifinal match, a contestant in third place finds the Daily Double with two other clues left in play. He wagers everything and provides the correct response...[[NegatedMomentOfAwesome but forgets to phrase it in the form of a question.]] To make matters worse, his opponents snag the other two clues, knocking him out of the tournament.** June 12, 1998: A two-player Final Jeopardy! with the players both tied at $7,600 showed the pitfalls of the "prisoner's dilemma". Neither of them trusted the other to wager $0 and tie, so they both wagered everything… and both got it wrong.** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1626 October 12, 1999]] had 15 out of 28 clues in Double Jeopardy! stump the players, ''three'' of which are in the top boxes.** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=163 February 23, 2005.]] To elaborate:*** 24 clues stumped all three players: 8 in the Jeopardy! Round and 16 in Double Jeopardy!, including the entire "Quotable Oscar Hosts" category. All three Daily Doubles were bombed as well. That's ''45% of the entire game''.*** One contestant managed to get only five right answers, and four ''wrong'' answers (including two of the Daily Doubles). This poor contestant finished the Jeopardy! Round with $200, but fell back into the red on the fourth clue of Double Jeopardy! and never got back out.*** The game became a ForegoneConclusion with one whole category left: the middle contestant also knocked himself out with two straight wrong answers, and nobody gave a right response for the next ''five'' clues.*** The last clue on the board was a Daily Double, which went to the only contestant who still had money; he wagered $1,000 and got it wrong. Since he was the only one with money, he was also the only one around for Final Jeopardy! Luckily, he gave a right answer there and wagered generously. Keep in mind this was the ''Ultimate Tournament of Champions''. Then again, by virtue of winning, he was assured the minimum for the game and a spot in the next round. No contestant who made it to the second round left with less than $25,000.** The [[http://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1001 October 15, 2001]] show, which turned into such a bloodbath in Double Jeopardy! that all three players emerged with lower scores than they started — from $1,000/$2,800/$1,900 to $800/$2,000/-$100. (Even worse, all three Daily Doubles were answered correctly.)** On the aforementioned episode from the NBC era, where all three contestants were disqualified from Final Jeopardy! due to their negative scores. One history of game shows claims that a three-way loss this way happened more than once, although -- since most of the NBC run has been erased from memory -- this can never be verified.** In one episode, they had an "Oops!" category in which all five clues were related to facts that the show had gotten wrong on previous episodes. One such clue referenced a clue that called the St. Louis ''Globe-Democrat'' a defunct newspaper, saying that the paper was re-established by the time the episode aired. However, by the time they aired the episode with the correction, the paper went under again!** Anytime an entire category goes without a correct response. Besides the Oscar Hosts one mentioned above:*** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=2476 November 5, 1999]] (a quarterfinal game in the Teen Tournament): "''Series/StarTrekVoyager''".*** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=103 January 10, 2005]]: "Old Names on the Map". ''Ten'' other stumpers in the round, to boot.*** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3442 July 21, 2010]]: "British Art & Artists".*** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3758 November 10, 2011]] (a semifinal game in the Tournament of Champions): "Give the Order"*** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3835 February 23, 2012]]: "Potpourri" *** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3855 March 22, 2012]] (in a round that also had at least seven other clues that stumped all three players[[note]]Three clues went unrevealed even though Alex never gave the "less than a minute" warning, so it's possible that the last three were edited out due to no one ringing in, as there is precedent for this being done.[[/note]]): "Historians"*** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4048 January 2, 2013]]: "Broadway Lyrics". This one is even worse since, unlike all the other examples, ''no one even rang in'' with a guess!*** November 3, 2014: "CIA Directors". 15 triple-stumpers altogether in the round.*** November 21, 2014 (final episode of the Tournament of Champions): "[=McWriters=]".*** June 1, 2015: "Canadian Cities".*** However, it should be noted that the "British Art & Artists", "Give the Order", "CIA Directors", "[=McWriters=]", and "Canadian Cities" categories each included a Daily Double, so one of the other two contestants could have given a correct response in either case. Still...** [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3883 April 26, 2012]]. Start in the Jeopardy! round, where ''three'' of the clues in "Great Lakes" were triple-stumpers. Then add ''eleven'' triple-stumpers in Double Jeopardy!** July 9-10, 2012: A contestant finishes with -$6,400 on the former episode, and another contestant briefly drops to '''-$6,600''' on the latter (but finishes with -$2,600).** On [[http://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4074 February 7, 2013]] in the second of three semifinal matches in the Teen Tournament, not only did all three contestants give ''the same'' incorrect response in Final Jeopardy!, but all three contestants bet their ''entire earnings'' as well, meaning none of the three contestants advanced to the finals. Jeopardy! actually changed the rules regarding finishes in tournaments to prevent this from happening again.** On [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4847 March 12, 2015]]; two contestants finished in the red and were disqualified from Final Jeopardy!; with Stephanie Hull finishing with a possible record low of '''-$6,800.'''* EveryYearTheyFizzleOut: After becoming the biggest cash winner of season 17, 2001 Tournament of Champions semifinalist Babu Srinivasan was invited to all three of Jeopardy!'s most recent "best-of" tournament (the Million Dollar Masters Tournament in 2002, the Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005, and the Battle of the Decades in 2014), but was eliminated in the opening round each time. If you count the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's ''0-5'' in tournament play (he was a wild card semifinalist in 2001.) Coincidentally, all four tournaments that he was in were won by all-time money winner Brad Rutter, but they oddly have never been drawn into the same match.* ExcitedShowTitle* {{Expy}}: ''Series/TheChallengers'' (1990-91), which was really an updated version of ''The Who, What Or Where Game'' (NBC, 1969-74).* ForegoneConclusion: If the player in the lead has more than twice as much as the second-place player going into Final Jeopardy!, no one can catch them. This is known as a "lock" game, assuring the first-place contestant of winning given that he does not do something amazingly stupid as [[PersonAsVerb pull a]] [[{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin]].** And then there's the 2011 Tournament of Champions, for which "lock" was an understatement. Champion Roger Craig finished the first day of the final with a $31,200 lead over 2nd place opponent Tom Nissley, who finished Double Jeopardy! with $14,600 on the second day; Roger was therefore guaranteed to win the tournament by $2,000 or more no matter what everybody wagered.** One Celebrity edition, featuring Al Franken, had a category entitled "[[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]] Presidential Players". Needless to say, Al swept the category. Then he apologized to his opponents (Keith Olbermann and Gretchen Carlson), saying ''he wrote four of the five sketches featured in the category.'' * FunnyBackgroundEvent: The set pieces for road shows in the 2000s often included oversized replicas of books, most of which had funny titles that were only seen for a couple seconds as the camera panned the set going in and out of commercial breaks.* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One early example from November 1985 had Johnny Gilbert reading the prize plugs (the last of which was a carpet from Joy Carpets, Inc.) shortly before Final Jeopardy; followed by Alex making a joke about how the 3rd place finisher (a Roman Catholic priest who finished in the red and was eliminated from Final Jeopardy) might be "having fun with that carpet".* GrandFinale: The last NBC episode of the original Fleming era featured some clips of notable moments — the end of the 1967 College Tourney (with Fleming as the most excited guy in the room), Mel Brooks on the 2,000th episode (1972) and Gene Shalit amusingly tackling a Daily Double. At the end, Fleming thanked the viewers and left the now-darkened set to Charlie Chaplin's "Smile".* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Ken Jennings would occasionally give his responses in foreign languages (e.g. "żQué es nada?"). Sometimes, entire categories focus on foreign languages, and the answer usually must be a translation, or the word itself. Trebek is rather good at accents. He also likes to throw foreign phrases at contestants who mention that they are fluent in another language.* HammerspaceHair: Leonard Cooper, champion of the 2013 Teen Tournament, revealed in an anecdote that a fellow student hid a highlighter in his afro, and it remained undiscovered for several days.* HandicappedBadass: Eddie Timanus, the first blind contestant on the show and quite the high winner, becoming a retired 5 day champion and a Tournament of Champions semifinalist. Although he proved that it's not that difficult for ''Jeopardy!'' to accommodate blind contestants, only one or two others have ever appeared after him.** The changes that were made to accommodate Timanus were: no visual clues or Video Daily Doubles; a card with the categories printed in Braille (handed to him at the start of each round), a tone that would denote when the contestants could buzz in (usually, the contestants would see a light around the board when Alex was finished speaking and they could buzz in without a small time penalty) and a Braille keyboard to type in his wagers and responses in Final Jeopardy!** Also, though not related to Timanus's blindness, it is notable that starting with his shows, contestants began the show already standing at their podiums when Johnny Gilbert introduced them, instead of the old practice of them walking up to the podiums as they were being introduced. The practice became permanent starting in September 2000.* UsefulNotes/HighDefinition: ''Jeopardy!'' and partner ''WheelOfFortune'' were the first two game shows to switch to hi-def, both doing so in 2007.* HollywoodToneDeaf: Averted. Instead of singing, Alex (or occasionally [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MsRw2x-NCg Johnny Gilbert]]) reads the lyrics in a hilariously deadpan manner. One category even had pre-recorded clues where Trebek performed five songs with the help of AutoTune.* HurricaneOfPuns: Variations on "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar The 'L' You Say]]" to indicate that correct responses will begin with L, are just one example of these.* INeedAFreakingDrink: If a contestant mentions alcohol in any way during their interviews, Alex seems to take great notice.** Subverted in a notorious clip that shows Trebek swearing like a sailor and supposedly drinking while trying to shoot a "Phone Jeopardy!" promo. Although the {{Cluster F Bomb}}s are real, Trebek was actually alternating between Diet Coke and a glass of water.* InvincibleHero: Brad Rutter, though he may be an InvincibleVillain if you found him to be cocky in later tournaments. Through 25 official Jeopardy! appearances comprising of 19 different games (including 2 & 3 day finals, and not counting the exhibition IBM Challenge), he has ''never'' lost a game, not even when he could afford it in a wild card situation, Rutter has won over $4,000,000 through his four tournament wins, and defeated a who's who of Jeopardy! greats along the way, including ''11'' Tournament of Champions finalists (Bob Verini, Mark Lowenthal, Bruce Naegeli, Tom Cubbage, Leszek Pawlowicz, Jerome Vered, Michael Dupee, Tad Carithers, Rick Knutsen, Dan Pawson, and Roger Craig), as well as Ken Jennings ''twice'' in tournament finals.** Ken Jennings seemed like this for much of 2004, before Nancy Zerg broke his 74 day championship reign that November. Even if you believe that Ken willingly ended his reign then, Brad Rutter proved that Ken is human during their head-to-head matchups.* {{Irony}}: An Indian contestant once missed a question about New Delhi. The contestant hung his head in shame and Alex called him out on it.** On April 27, 2012, a contestant missed the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7-UA46gQ0 last clue of the game]], a Daily Double which presented lyrics to "I Lost on Jeopardy" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic ("My hope of winning sank, 'cause I got the Daily Double now, and then my mind went blank"). She didn't recognize the song and ended up losing in Final Jeopardy!* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: If a contestant dares to mispronounce something, expect Trebek to [[InsufferableGenius casually correct]] them while awarding them the money.* JeopardyIntelligenceTest: What is a TropeNamer?[[note]](Correct. Pick again.)[[/note]]** IBM's Watson computer, an AI experiment, was a contestant February 14-16, 2011. If Watson managed to win, IBM would continue developing its artificial intelligence algorithms and sell them as a knowledge management platform. Watson won spectacularly, and thanks to this successful test it has branched out into an entire new product line from IBM.* JeopardyThinkingMusic: {{Trope Namer}}s for $600, Alex.* JustAKid: When Teen Tournament winners were invited to the Tournament of Champions, this was often averted when said teenagers held their own against adults in their matches. Eric Newhouse, Matt Zielenski, Sahir Islam, and Chacko George even won TOC quarterfinal games (Chacko even defeated eventual finalist Steve Fried in their opening game), but none ever made the finals in their own right, a possible contributing factor to why Teen champions are longer in the TOC field.* LaserGuidedKarma:** 1986 contestant Barbara Lowe, who was said by many eyewitnesses to be a total JerkAss. She quibbled with Trebek on-camera when one of her answers was ruled wrong, and, according to ex-writer Harry Eisenberg, drew irate letters from fans for her behavior. Nonetheless, she retired undefeated. However, she had previously appeared on several game shows, most by using aliases, and had lied to ''Jeopardy!'' about how many she'd been on (at the time, you could only be on two in a five-year span). She was barred from appearing in the Tournament of Champions, and her winnings were withheld until she threatened them with a lawsuit.** On [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3171 October 12, 2009]], one of the contestants was Jeff Kirby, who originally appeared on the show in December 1999. As stated in GameShowWinningsCap, Trebek-era contestants are not allowed to appear again, but Jeff [[TheyJustDidntCare somehow]] got through the audition process. He didn't get caught until someone on the show's message board pointed out that he was wearing the ''same tie'' he had worn in his 1999 appearance. (Either he has a spectacularly limited wardrobe, or he was thumbing his nose at the powers that be.) What makes him fit into this trope? He finished in third place on both shows (and of course, was denied the $1,000 third-place winnings from his 2009 episode).* LighterAndSofter: The clues were initially far more straightforward, as compared to the show's current affinity for puns, {{Shout Out}}s and GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Whether or not this has dumbed down the show is up to the viewer.** Trebek himself. During the early seasons, Trebek was more akin to a very strict teacher: he would snap at the contestants if they forgot a rule (most commonly, phrasing with "What is ...?") or giving an answer that was inappropriate to the category (such as in a category about numbers, anything other than a numerical answer), and treated the show very seriously. Once the writers began loosening up with more esoteric and humorous categories, Trebek's hosting style became less formal with it. Particularly in the 2000s, it's now become very common for him to laugh, smile and joke around with the contestants.* LongRunner: Trebek's version began its 30th season in September 2013, placing it third behind only ''Wheel of Fortune'' (nighttime version started in 1983; daytime in 1975) and ''ThePriceIsRight'' (CBS version started in 1972; the show itself started in 1956).** Even the classic 1964-75 Art Fleming version as a standalone could count — it ran for nearly 11 years, and was practically a tradition for businessmen and college students on their lunch break (which is how the show got mega-popular in the first place).* LoopholeAbuse:** Any time a contestant bends the "form of a question" rules by saying something like "Could that be ____?" or "Is that an ____?". The judges aren't terribly picky on what constitutes a question.*** One contestant actually got credit for answering "Time Magazine. ''[{{beat}}]'' What's that?", and another got credit for just saying "Who?" when the correct response was "Who are Music/TheWho?"** If the response itself is a question, nothing more needs to be done.** Ken Jennings had fun with this in one episode, questioning an answer with "What be ebonics?", which was accepted.** One Final Jeopardy! had the correct response of "What is oxygen?" A contestant only got as far as writing "What is O?" before time ran out, but the judges took it because "O" is the periodic symbol for oxygen.* LoopingLines: If Alex stumbles when reading a clue, he usually re-records it in post. This is easy to do, since his reading is usually done over a shot of the clue's text.* ManipulativeEditing: If a round ends with multiple clues on which no one rings in, then they are typically edited out. So to home viewers, it merely appears that they ran out of time instead. * MoonLogicPuzzle: Commonly used, usually by putting a key word in quotes to hint at the right response, or wording the clue so that it mentions something else of an identical name. Referred to as the "[[http://www.j-archive.com/help.php#teaseoutmetric Tease-Out Metric]]" by the fandom, and lampshaded by the show with "Stupid Answers".* MusicalGag: The fanfare at the end of the 2008-present theme is the same melody as the Daily Double jingle.* ObligatoryJoke: The May 1, 2007 Final Jeopardy! answer of, "This character was mentioned in the first line of ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''" led to one contestant correctly asking, "[[CatchPhrase Who is John Galt?]]"* ObviousBeta: Compared to the circulating 1964-75 Fleming episodes, the clips shown from the March 5, 1964 "test" episode look like one. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4o3E_SHmPo September 18, 1983 pilot]] is basically Alex Trebek in the Fleming era with a "personal computer"-themed set and [[LetsMakeADeal Jay Stewart]] announcing.* ObviousRulePatch: Several.** Very early in the original Fleming run, only the ''proper'' phrasing was ruled as correct — contestants phrasing a question incorrectly (e.g., "What is Abraham Lincoln?") were asked by Fleming to use the "proper" phrasing. After Merv Griffin discovered that this was slowing down gameplay, the rule was slightly altered to give credit for a correct response so long as it was phrased in the form of a question. As mentioned above, this rule often gets exploited to its limits.** Early on, the Final Jeopardy! board was located to the ''left'' of the contestants; such a viewpoint not only hurt some necks, but also gave the contestants the ability to see their opponent jotting down their response during the 30-second writing time.** For the first season of the Trebek era, contestants could ring in as soon as the clue was revealed. This often led to more than one podium lighting up at the same time, or premature buzz-ins that led to the time limit expiring before Trebek could finish the clue. From season 2 onward, the buzzers activate after the clue is finished, and premature ring-ins are locked out for 1/8 of a second.** After a contestant lost because he forgot to phrase his Final Jeopardy! response as a question, they changed the rules so that the contestants write the "What is" part on their screens during the commercial break along with their wager, as opposed to writing it concurrently with the response.** Celebrity Jeopardy (played for charity) is much more forgiving of the "must be in the form of a question" rule.** Money equal to their score used to be awarded to all contestants, but "winner-take-all" promotes more risk taking for a more exciting show, and prevents contestants from ending participation if they've reached some needed goal amount.** After the above-mentioned EpicFail in the Teen Tournament, the tiebreaker rules in tournament play were changed so that every game would have a declared winner.** After a barrage of ties at the start of Season 31, the long-standing rule that ties for first place during regular play result in the tied players becoming co-champions was eliminated partway through. As is the case during tournaments, ties for first during regular play are now broken by a tiebreaker clue.* OffTheRails: A contestant who obviously doesn't know the right Final Jeopardy! sometimes draws a picture, makes {{Shout Out}}s, or writes "Kebert Xela" in hopes of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy returning the host back to his home dimension]]. Sometimes a contestant knows the answer, but just because the game has become a ForegoneConclusion in their favor (or, in some cases, it's to their advantage to bet $0 [[ViolationOfCommonSense even though they're not in the lead]]), just puts down something silly like "Hot Pastrami Sandwiches" or "Woo Hoo Yee Haw Yeah Baby".** At least twice during Ken's run, a contestant wrote some variation on "What is Whatever Ken Wrote Down?". A couple others have written variants of "What is I have no idea?"*** Double subverted on Ken's 64th game. The middle contestant wrote "See next podium" with an arrow, only to point to the one on the right from the audience's point of view. It turned out that the contestant on the right gave a correct response while Ken did not, although Ken won anyway thanks to a "lock" game.** At least once, a contestant has proposed to his girlfriend in the audience via Final Jeopardy!** And of course, if there's a list of things in the answer, giving a response of "[[{{Cheers}} What are X things that have never been in my kitchen?]]"** In the final episode of the IBM challenge, Ken Jennings wrote "I for one welcome our new computer overlords" with his answer and bet. This got a ShoutOut on [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3716 September 21, 2011]].** Leonard Cooper on the Final Jeopardy! at the end of the Teen Tournament in 2013: "Who is some guy in Normandy? But I just won $75,000!"* OlderThanHeLooks: Alex is in his 70s, but hardly looks it. Similarly, Johnny Gilbert (for the few times he's been seen on-camera) looks pretty good for a 90-year old. See them both [[http://gameshows.about.com/od/gameshowsaz/ss/2011-Readers-Choice-Awards-Best-Game-Show-Announcer-Finalists_4.htm here]].* OldMaster: Any winner of Jeopardy!'s 10 Seniors Tournaments from 1987-1995 for contestants 50 and older, including two Tournament of Champions finalists (Lou Pryor & Marilyn Kneeland.) Also applies to any older contestants in regular play that have long championship reigns on the show, and any past champions who do well in later Jeopardy! best-of tournaments, some over 20 years after their original runs.* OneSteveLimit: In the 1996 Tournament of Champions, two of the finalists were Michael Dupee and Michael Daunt. Dupee, the eventual winner, went as "Mike" to avoid confusion.** In a similar vein, two of the finalists in the 2008 Teen Tournament were Rachel Horn (the eventual winner) and Rachel Cooke. To avoid confusion when they were matched up in the finals, Rachel Cooke was introduced as Rachel "[[GenderBlenderName Steve]]" Cooke, and played as Steve, which was a nickname she was referred to at school.** Jeopardy! tries to avoid having same-named contestants in the same match where possible, hence why such conflicts only occur in tournament finals when it's unavoidable. For example, it's likely not a coincidence that Mark Lowenthal and Mark Dawson weren't matched up together in the Battle of the Decades quarterfinals.** In the 1995 Tournament of Champions, two of the finalists were David Siegel and Isaac Segal, both last names pronounced the same way. Interestingly, David Siegel was Isaac Segal's immediate predecessor as champion, which Alex lampshaded in the latter's first 2 games.** Averted when there are contestants named Alex, as Alex Trebek has posed answers to a number of contestants with the same first name, most notably Alex Jacob, a 6 day champion from April 2015. Johnny Gilbert has announced contestants that went by the name Johnny (as opposed to John or Jonathan) on the show as well.* OpeningNarration:-->'''Johnny Gilbert''': "This... is... ''Jeopardy!'' Introducing today's contestants: ''[lists off the two challengers and their occupations and city]'', AND our returning champion, ''[gives occupation, city, and name]'', whose [X] day ''cash'' winnings total [amount] dollars. And now, here is the host of ''Jeopardy!'', Alex Trebek!"** In the 2000s, the original "now entering the studio are today's contestants" is replaced with one of five slightly different intros, depending on the day. This coincided with the contestants no longer actually entering the studio, not coincidentally around the time Eddie Timanus, a blind man, was on the show.* PaintingTheMedium: A clue from March 9, 2005, about fonts read "Bauhaus or Arial, for example", with the words "Bauhaus" and "Arial" written in those respective fonts.* PantsFree: Alex Trebek, at the beginning of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWagEnd9Xs this Tournament of Champions show]].* {{Pilot}}: There have been several over time.** 1963-64: The original run-through used a board with ''ten'' categories containing ''ten'' clues each, which filled nearly all of the stage and jutted into the audience area. Seeing how problematic such a board was (and could be), Merv Griffin cut it down to the far more manageable six-by-five for each round.** March 6, 1977: Used a revolving gameboard and a timed Super Jeopardy!, but otherwise faithful to the eventual series. This pilot was originally prepared for CBS.** September 18, 1983: Alex Trebek with the 1978-79 set layout and music, now themed like a personal computer. Final Jeopardy! was reinstated, and Jay Stewart was the announcer.** Early 1984: Similar to the eventual series, except 1) the dollar amounts were halved ($50-$250/$100-$500), 2) the contestant podiums had nameplates along with each contestant's personal signature, 3) the ''Jeopardy!'' logo on the board was very basic, 4) the theme music was a slightly different arrangement of what it would eventually become, and 5) Alex's podium looked remarkably like the "clicker podiums" (with the ''Jeopardy!'' logo on top) seen in various HomeGame adaptations.* PersonAsVerb: In the ''Cheers'' episode "What Is... Cliff Clavin?", postman Cliff Clavin appears on the show and racks up an insurmountable lead, but loses after he gets Final Jeopardy! wrong and wagers everything. Making such a wager is often called "pulling a Clavin".* PlayerNudge: If a contestant hits a Daily Double, Alex will sometimes remind them of their score in comparison to their opponents — for instance, "You have exactly half of X's total", which pretty much translates to "you really should make it a true Daily Double". He sometimes gives similar score-related nudges going into Final Jeopardy!** Sometimes subverted for laughs if a player with a significant lead hits a Daily Double, and Alex jokingly suggests that they make it a true Daily Double.* PopculturalOsmosis: You know this has happened when your once-niche favorite is a subject on ''Jeopardy!''** [[WebVideo/LeeroyJenkinsVideo Leeroy Jenkins]]!** On November 22, 2006, [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1390 there was a category featuring words from UrbanDictionary]].** "I Can Has Cheezburger?" was a category on [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3219 November 18, 2009]], but the category had to do with cheeseburgers, not {{Lolcats}}.** In a category about {{MMORPG}}s, ''EveOnline'', of all games, was one of them.** The College Tournament Quarterfinal game on [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3305 February 4, 2010]], featured the category "Internet Favorites" with clues about The Evolution of Dance, Keyboard Cat, [[TheLonelyIsland "I'm On A Boat"]], and CharlieTheUnicorn.** '''[[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]]''' was part of a clue on February 23, 2010. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEJqHplFo8 No, seriously.]]** There was also an episode where all the categories were named after "Weird Al" Yankovic songs.** VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas was the subject of a clue on February 24, 2011.** Failblog was the subject of a clue on March 14, 2011. Ironically, nobody got it right... [[DrosteImage and a video of the clue appeared on Failblog the very next day.]]** Tumblr was the answer to a clue on December 16, 2011.** A clue about planking was on February 2, 2012.** A "Viral Videos" category was on February 13, 2012's episode (the first game of the 2012 Teen Tournament finals). There were clues about [[Creator/ChrisCrocker "Leave Britney Alone"]], "Double Rainbow", "Charlie Bit My Finger", and "Numa Numa".** The categories in the Jeopardy! Round on [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4073 February 6, 2013]] (a Teen Tournament episode) were as follows:*** Hey, I Just Met You*** This is Crazy*** But Here's My Number*** So Call Me...*** May "B"*** [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, We Went There]]** Minecraft was the subject of a clue on February 5, 2013 (5th quarterfinal game of the 2013 Teen Tournament).* ProgressiveJackpot: Used in the 1978 endgame, $5,000 plus $2,500 per trip, up to $15,000 for the fifth (total of $50,000).* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "This! Is! ''Jeopardy!''" Also qualifies as a TitleScream.** Amusingly, this came full-circle on [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3834 the February 22, 2012 episode]], which had a category where Johnny Gilbert delivered various "This is X" phrases in the style of the intro. Naturally, one of them was "[[LampshadeHanging This! Is! SPARTA!]]"* RatingsStunt: The {{Celebrity Edition}}s and the "IBM Challenge" (Ken Jennings vs. Brad Rutter vs. the IBM Watson supercomputer, the first-ever nonhuman to play a live game of ''Jeopardy!''). Truth be told, it's a legitimate method of research testing.** Arguably, any of ''Jeopardy!'s'' "all-time best of" tournaments could be considered this, given the big cash prizes and popular past champions involved in them.* ReactionShot: First used on Nancy Zerg when Ken Jennings came down to earth, it was dubbed the "Zerg Cam" by fans, and referred to as such by Trebek during a repeat showing of Ken's losing game.* RealLifeWritesThePlot: September 18, 2013 had a category based on fetus development, which featured The Clue Crew's Sarah Whitcomb delivering clues on the baby she was actually pregnant with at the time.* RearrangeTheSong: Though they kept the original 1964 "Think!" recording for Final Jeopardy!, that same melody was used as the main theme once the 1984 version started up. At first, the main theme was performed on synthesizer and saxophone. The intro was truncated by 1990, and in 1991, bongos were dubbed in. Starting in 1997, both the main theme and the "Think!" music have received multiple orchestral re-arrangements. ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'' used an electric guitar remix of the theme, which the parent show has since appropriated for teen and college tournaments.* RougeAnglesOfSatin: On [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3842 March 14, 2012]], the category "They Go by Their First Initial" had "Their" misspelled as "Thier".* RunningGag: There are several recurring categories, but the various names given to the opera categories ("Uh-Oh, Opera"; "The Dreaded Opera Category") would count.** "Potent Potables", until the aforementioned ''SNL'' skits turned it into their own running gag. On the original series, Fleming regularly said it was announcer Don Pardo's favorite category.** "Those Darn Etruscans" was another early recurring category on the Trebek version.** "The Dreaded Spelling Category" for Teen Tournaments, wherein you had to spell the response.** "Stupid Answers": The correct response is ''in the clue'', although sometimes not as obviously as you might think (e.g., "Now named for James Brady, this room in the White House is where the briefing of the press takes place." [[spoiler:What is the Briefing Room?]]).** "Before and After" and "Before, During, and After"; see "ShoutOut", below.* SchmuckBait: Frequently, a clue is written so that it may hint at one answer but then throws in a key word at the last second to negate what would seem like the more sensible answer. For example, "His efforts to hold the Union together were ineffectual; 7 states seceded on his watch." Luckily, the contestant avoided the SchmuckBait response and gave the correct one (James Buchanan, ''not'' Abe Lincoln).** There's no way the writers didn't expect someone to say it, but there's almost no way they expected ''Ken Jennings'' to say "What's a ho[e]?" to "This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker." (The correct response, "rake", was given by another contestant.) Judging by Ken's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJO7hcinS-U massive grin]] and how ridiculously far ahead he was at the time, he likely threw the question intentionally just to be funny.** An example from [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=455 July 20, 2005]] had a player win a game from behind because he didn't fall for the SchmuckBait in Final Jeopardy. The clue alluded to the "Ode to Joy" in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, but the use of "70-minute work" meant that the correct response specifically meant the entire symphony. The player in the lead put "Ode to Joy" and wagered everything, ending up losing.** Another example was used on [[http://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4255 July 12, 2013]]: "The title princess of this '''game''', which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife." It was used in the ''Final Jeopardy!'' round, meaning Alex could not remind the contestants to be more specific if they provided a response. The end result started a debate on Kotaku. (Only one contestant gave the correct response of "The Legend Of Zelda", but the other two contestants simply wrote "Zelda" and were judged incorrect.)* SeriousBusiness: Many fans who play from home use a scoring system developed by former contestant Karl Coryat and consider the game to be such. What's more, there is a [[http://www.j-archive.com/help.php large lexicon]] of terminology used by the fanbase, including several terms coined by former contestants.** Painfully averted in most of the CelebrityEdition games Celebs often insisted on ChewingTheScenery, ringing in on clues they obviously didn't know with an "Oh, I know this! What is it?" attitude, and otherwise clowning around. It didn't help that the game threw in unnecessary diversions (such as having a [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1382 singer perform before a Daily Double!]]) which led to as few as ''14'' clues being revealed in each round. Fortunately, the celebrity tournament of the 2009–10 season was taken far more seriously, with more focused (and generally sharper) celebs who treated their games with respect.* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Some categories use long words to obfuscate what would be otherwise be a simple clue. In fact, it's the whole point of any category that ends with "In Other Words".* ShoutOut:** One recurring category is "Before & After", which works the same way as its ''Wheel of Fortune'' counterpart. This category debuted on the AprilFoolsDay 1997 episode of ''Jeopardy!'', when Pat Sajak hosted.** They have further lampshaded this Trope on rare instances since October 2001 with a category called "Before, During, and After", which fuses three ideas together with two linking words. ''Wheel'' has yet to adopt this category, even as a joke.** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the late 1990s, when ''Wheel'' introduced a category called Rhyme Time based on the ''Jeopardy!'' category of the same name.** On April 1, 2010, the reigning champion mentioned during his interview, that he considered ''Series/{{Pitfall}}'' (another Trebek-hosted game) "the best thing ever" when he was young. Alex [[OldShame couldn't disagree more,]] pointing out that it was the only time he was ever "stiffed" for his salary.** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': At the end of his match against IBM's Watson, Ken Jennings paraphrased Kent Brockman by writing under his Final Jeopardy question "I for one welcome our new Computer Overlords".** And continuing in that same vein, champion Jason Keller copied Watson's "What is Toronto?" on his ninth game.** The "[[XMeetsY Wheel of Jeopardy!]]" category. They show a partially-solved ''WheelOfFortune'' puzzle and give a clue about the answer on the board.*** And in April 2013, the category "I'd like to solve the puzzle... fast!" had more detailed clues but very few letters revealed in each more difficult puzzle (such as Q[[spoiler:UET]]Z[[spoiler:ALCOATL]]). ** Some of the categories on the Celebrity Jeopardy! segments of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' have later been used as actual categories on the show, such as [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1071 "Japan-US Relations" on the June 27, 2006 episode]] or [[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1872 "I'm Not Wearing Any Pants" on the May 25, 2007 episode]].** One contestant is obviously a ''Family Guy'' fan, as he wrote down "Who is Kebert Xela?" for his Final ''Jeopardy!'' response. (Also an example of OffTheRails, since he went into Final Jeopardy! with only $1 thanks to a Daily Double gone wrong.)*** One category during the 2015 Teacher's Tournament was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09uUZyez18 "Two D's and an F"]].** Likewise, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubklvxNtdDw&t=1m22s this contestant]] knows his ''Cheers.''** ''SaturdayNightLive'': As Jane Curtin builds up a big lead during a Celebrity Jeopardy episode in 1998, Naomi Judd refers to an old SNL CatchPhrase of Dan Aykroyd [[PhraseCatcher towards Jane]]...--> '''Naomi Judd''': Well, Jane, I guess you're NOT such an ignorant slut, after all!** Several references have been made to the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' crossover episode.** March 13, 1991: In the category "Reference Books", "''Beat the Odds'', ''Music Bingo'' & ''Fast Draw'' are entries in an ency. of these by Schwartz, Ryan & Wostbrock."[[note]]What is ''The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows''?[[/note]] As a double example, all three of these were hosted by Johnny Gilbert!* TheShowMustGoOn: In one episode, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDxfwM0SfY a contestant fainted]] during Final Jeopardy!. Alex roused the contestant and asked him to write down his Final Jeopardy! response. Apparently, the contestant was on a crash diet and had not eaten in almost two days. This did not affect the final outcome, as another contestant already had a "lock" game and gave a correct response.* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Watson matches. They were taped at an IBM lab in New York, and one of the two matches was split between two episodes, allowing room for lots of behind-the-scenes footage.* SophisticatedAsHell: Trebek can seamlessly jump from a sophisticated, professional tone to offbeat, wry, and often [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] humor, then throw in a timely pop-culture reference just for fun. The announcer also does much the same, in categories that require him to speak the category questions... or sing.* SpinOff: The 1970s syndicated version, ''Super Jeopardy!'', ''Jep!'', ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'' and ''Sports Jeopardy!''* StatusQuoGameShow: The second Trebek episode ended in a three-way tie at $0 due to all three players wagering all of their winnings on Final Jeopardy! and getting it wrong.* StoppedNumberingSequels: A variant. Partway through Ken Jennings' run, Johnny Gilbert stopped declaring how many days he had been champion at the start of each episode, believed to be a result of the date of Ken's last game being leaked online, so that viewers would have a harder time knowing that day's result. For his 75th and last game, they announced his 74 day reign again like normal at the show's beginning.* SublimeRhyme: The June 12, 1998 show had 12 of the 13 categories ending in "-ation(s)". The only exception was the Double Jeopardy! category "Crustaceans".* SubvertedCatchPhrase: A few contestants have said "I'd like to solve the puzzle" or "I'd like to buy a vowel" on a Daily Double, often to Trebek's amusement.* TalkAboutTheWeather: Was the name of a category on weather phoenomena on the June 17, 2013 show.* TemptingFate: Averted in the Teen Tournament finals on February 12, 2013. Contestant Leonard Cooper wrote "Who is some guy in Normandy, but I just won $75,000!" despite ''not'' having a "lock" tournament. [[note]]Similar to a "lock" game in that neither trailing contestant can cover a wager of $0 by the leading contestant. In this case, contestant Nilai made a $7,000 wager, and a correct response would have given Nilai a higher 2-day total than Leonard.[[/note]] Because contestant Nilai gave an incorrect response, Leonard did win the $75,000.* ThoseTwoGuys: Alex and Ken regularly played off each other, with several recurring "bits".** The two trying to figure out what to discuss in Ken's interview. By about the 25th or so episode they were getting into more obscure facets of Ken's life; by the end, the two just had small, random conversations.** Whenever Ken Jennings hit a Daily Double, Alex would try to "read Ken's mind" and anticipate what he would wager; Ken would sometimes switch it up and bid a few dollars more or less.** Alex's various monologues at the top of each show referred to Ken's winning streak; once, he walked out and stated that, since Ken had been returning champion for so long, he was essentially working at the show — and held up one of the show's timecards with Ken's name written on it.** Ken himself [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in his book, where he said that the end of his streak surely broke the hearts of countless [[HoYay Alex/Ken]] [[{{Shipping}} Shippers]].* ThatsWhatSheSaid: A category on the March 16, 2011 game.* TickTockTune: The Final Jeopardy! music.* TitleDrop: In the first season, Alex would "caution [the players] about the Jeopardy!" — i.e., that they would lose money on an incorrect response.* TransatlanticEquivalent: Numerous, which led the American version to host three International Jeopardy! tournaments in 1996, 1997, and 2001, and even travel to Sweden to tape the second on that version's set. Swedish champion Ulf Jensen won the first international tournament in 1996 (defeating American champ Ryan Holznagel along the way), while the other two were won by champions of the American version: Canada's Michael Daunt and the U.S.A.'s Robin Carroll.** Among other countries, the UK had three different versions between 1983 & 1996, none lasting more than three seasons. Though the last version produced the 1996 international tournament's runner up (Mandi Hale), none of them really caught on domestically, leading to an odd inversion of GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff — Britons are ''aware'' of ''Jeopardy!'', but are mostly nonplussed by how mainstream its influence is on American culture and stock phrases.** Averted in Canada, aside from a short lived French-language version filmed in Quebec in the early 1990s. Though there's no English language domestic version of ''Jeopardy!'', Canadian viewers can easily watch the US version on American over-the-air channels and on some local Canadian networks. Canadians are also welcome to compete on the American ''Jeopardy!'', with notable examples including 1990 Tournament of Champions winner Bob Blake, and TOC finalists Bruce Fauman, Michael Daunt, and Doug Hicton.* TruckDriversGearChange: The "Think!" music used in Final Jeopardy! has always gone up a minor third in the second verse. Also, every variation of the current version's theme tune has used several key changes; the 1984 version was all over the place in particular.* UnPerson: Not only do players who finish Double Jeopardy! with no money not stick around for Final Jeopardy!, they don't always get to participate in the credits sequence of the players chatting with Alex.* UpToEleven: Before and After is a pretty tricky category; There are two clues and you need to come up with an answer that bridges them together. Near the end of a particularly long tournament, there was a category "Before, '''During''', and After", where every correct response involved three answers with two bridges.* UranusIsShowing: Stealth example on the May 28, 2012 show in the category "It'll End with 'Us'":-->'''Alex''': It takes 84 earth years for it to go around the sun.-->'''Contestant''': What is Uranus?-->'''Alex''': Yes, the planet.* UrbanLegend: The 1978-79 version was supposedly canned because Merv, returning from a vacation in Europe, saw the format changes and demanded that NBC cancel the show '''immediately''' (and only hastened its demise, as NBC was already planning to cancel it). The legend falls apart because the first pilot for this version, with a slightly different format, was taped on March 6, 1977... followed by ''another'' in mid-1978.* ViewersAreGeniuses: One of the main reasons that game shows are popular is because they allow people to "play along" from home. But considering the vast amount of sometimes-obscure clues that are given every day...* ViolationOfCommonSense: Some wagering situations in Final Jeopardy! are not immediately intuitive. There are situations where it's actually advantageous for a player who's behind to bet nothing[[note]]If the second-place player has between 2/3 and 3/4 of the first-place player's dollar amount; the J-Archive fan site explains the logic.[[/note]] or, in a related situation, the first-place player does ''not'' bet to cover the second-place player's largest possible wager.* VisualPun:** July 13, 2012: [[http://i.imgur.com/8kFP4.jpg A clue about the Luxor pyramid]] has a pyramidal shape.** October 22, 2012: The entire category "They Drive On The Left In..." had all of its clues formatted left-justified.* VoiceOfDramatic: Johnny Gilbert; see TitleScream above. Often tends to be parodied in later seasons.* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Happened during the 2012 Teen Tournament. It was a video clue about the MVP of the Super Bowl XLVI. The home audience saw the picture of the MVP [[note]] Who was Eli Manning?[[/note]], but there was a technical glitch during the game which resulted with the contestants not seeing the picture of the MVP. He got it wrong, but after the break, Alex decided that it wasn't the contestant's fault he got it wrong seeing how there was technical glitches, and so he decided to redact the penalty.** Another glitch interfered with a playing of Final Jeopardy!; the light pen of one of the contestants wasn't writing properly. The contestant held up the pen to indicate this, and he was granted a card to write his answer in with a regular pen. The contestant won the game (and the partially-written answer on the light board seemed to indicate that he knew the correct answer all along, and that there actually ''was'' a problem with the pen), but because of the special treatment, both he ''and'' the second-place contestant for that game appeared in the next game. The marker and card are now standard equipment for all players.* YeahShot: One promo for the Teacher's Tournanent ends with a shot of the contestants raising their hands.* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: The occasional ''Stupid Answers'' category.* YouGoGirl: Male contestants tend to outnumber women on ''Jeopardy!'', especially in earlier seasons, but there have been a number of high profile female contestants, such as Tournament of Champions winners Rachael Schwartz, Robin Carroll, and Celeste Dinucci, 10th Anniversary Tournament finalist Leslie Frates, high-earning regular play contestants like Julia Collins, Larissa Kelly, and Amy Fine, ''four-time'' Jeopardy! tournament semifinalist Pam Mueller, and Ken Jennings-dethroner Nancy Zerg, among others.** Only once has the Tournament of Champions featured two female finalists, and surprisingly, it was back in ''1993'', courtesy of Bev Schwartzberg and Seniors Tournament winner Marilyn Kneeland. However, both lost to Tom Nosek, and ''Jeopardy!'' had to wait another year for a woman (Rachael Schwartz) to win the whole thing.* YouMakeMeSic: On the October 14, 2013 episode, the defending champion was penalized for misspelling [[spoiler: Kazakhstan]] for his Final Jeopardy! response (he misspelled it as [[spoiler:Kazkhistan]]). This led to backlash from angry viewers on Jeopardy!'s {{Facebook}} page who thought the judges were being too harsh on spelling, even though the rules for Final Jeopardy! clearly state that "the clue is correct so long as the spelling does not affect the pronunciation". Since then, after episodes where contestants misspelled Final Jeopardy! responses but they were correct under this rule, backlash on the Facebook page has not been uncommon.* YourMom: "Your Momma" was a category on December 16, 2010. Of ''course'', the first thing out of the contestant's mouth was "I'll take Your Momma for $400, Alex."----


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