Q: What is Jeopardy!?
A: Jeopardy! is the creation of this legendary television host and media mogul.
Q: Who is Merv Griffin?
A: Griffin credits her with the idea of a game show where, given the answer to a question, the contestants must come up with the question.
Q: Who is Griffin’s wife, Julann Griffin?
A: When the game board showed ten clues in ten categories didn’t fit well on the television screen, the number of answers and categories was changed to this.
Q: What are five clues in six categories?
A: Of the three lecterns, the returning champion always has this one.
Q: What is leftmost?
A: These dollar values were the five amounts associated with each clue in a category from 1964 to 1975.
Q: What are $10, $20, $30, $40, $50?
A: These dollar values are the five amounts associated with each clue in a category presently.
Q: What are $200, $400, $600, $800, $1000?
A: Taken from horse racing, these special clues allow the contestant to wager money they’ve already won.
Q: What is the Daily Double?
A: He was the original Jeopardy! host from 1964 until 1979.
Q: Who is Art Fleming?
A: Since 1984, they’ve been the host and announcer of Jeopardy!
Q: Who are Alex Trebek and Johnny Gilbert?
A: Played during the Final Jeopardy round, this tune, written by Griffin, is exactly 30 seconds long and has earned him over 70 million in royalties.
Q: What is “Think!”?
A: At the start of Season 20, the rule limiting the total cash a contestant could win and this number of days a contestant could appear was eliminated.
Q: What is five?
A: He holds the record for the longest winning streak on Jeopardy! with 74 consecutive wins.
Q: Who is Ken Jenkins?
A: He holds the record for the most money won on Jeopardy! for winning a total of $3,255,102 (although this number is disputed).
Q: Who is Brad Rutter?
A: From February 14-16, 2011, Ken Jenkins and Brad Rutter played two rounds of Jeopardy! with this unusual opponent.
Q: What is Watson, the IBM computer?
A: “Who are three people who’ve never been in my kitchen?”
Q: What question did Jeopardy! contestant Cliff Clavin answer to the clue of "Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur" in the Cheers episode entitled “What is … Cliff Clavin”?
A: This parody of Greg Kihn's 1983 hit "Jeopardy" was created by "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1984.
Q: What is “I Lost on Jeopardy”?
Answer of the Day: He was the original Jeopardy! announcer from 1964 until 1975. (That's him on the monitor!)
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