HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''
Jeopardy! ''Jeopardy!'' is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead g ...
'' is an American television game show created by
Merv Griffin Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television show host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer, later appearing in film and on Broadway theatre, Broadway. From 1962 to 1986, G ...
, in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of a question. The show has experienced a long life in several incarnations over the course of nearly a half-century, spending more than 12 years as a daytime network program and having currently run in syndication for 41 seasons. It has also gained a worldwide following with a multitude of international adaptations.


Overview


Main series


Spin-offs

''Super Jeopardy!'' (1990)


1964–1975


Original series (1964–1975)

The original ''Jeopardy!'' series, hosted by
Art Fleming Arthur Fleming Fazzin (May 1, 1924 – April 25, 1995) was an American actor and television host. He hosted the first version of the television game show ''Jeopardy!'', which aired on NBC from 1964 until 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979. ...
, premiered at 11:30a.m. Eastern (10:30 Central) on March 30, 1964, originating from studios at the
NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...
headquarters in New York City's
30 Rockefeller Plaza 30 Rockefeller Plaza (officially the Comcast Building; formerly RCA Building and GE Building) is a skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York. Completed in 1933 ...
. NBC moved the program to 12:00 noon Eastern (11:00a.m. Central) after 18 months, making it accessible to businessmen coming home for their lunch break or else watching it on restaurant or bar sets, and college students departing their classes for the day watching it on student center or dormitory sets. These two constituencies, who ordinarily did not have the time or interest to view other daytime programs, made the show a runaway hit, propelling its ratings to second place among all daytime game shows by the end of the decade—second only to its immediate lead-in, ''
The Hollywood Squares ''Hollywood Squares'' (originally ''The Hollywood Squares'', later stylized as ''H2: Hollywood Squares'') is an American game show in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show originally aired as a ...
''. The show had practically no trouble whatsoever against soap operas such as ''
Love of Life ''Love of Life'' is an American soap opera televised on CBS from September 24, 1951, to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation '' Search for Tomorrow'' premiered three weeks before ''Love of Life''; he created ...
'' and '' Where the Heart Is'' on CBS and mostly sitcom reruns on ABC. In 1973,
Lin Bolen Lin Bolen (March 21, 1941 – January 19, 2018) was an American television executive and producer. She was most noted for her role at NBC daytime television programming as the first female vice president of a TV network, a position she held from ...
, then Vice President of Daytime Programming at NBC, began eliminating longer-running game shows from the network in an aggressive attempt to bolster ratings among women aged 18 to 34, a desirable demographic to advertisers on daytime programs of that day; ''Jeopardy!'' had not performed especially strongly among those viewers, despite its overwhelming success among men and young people. Refreshing the daytime lineup became especially imperative to Bolen when CBS launched a surprise success in the soap opera ''
The Young and the Restless ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in the fictional Genoa City (named after the real-life Genoa City, Wiscon ...
'' at 12:00p.m. EST (11:00a.m. CST) in March 1973, drawing away younger audiences in particular. Although ''Jeopardy!'' continued to produce high ratings in the 12:00 noon time slot (also against the ABC revival of ''
Password A password, sometimes called a passcode, is secret data, typically a string of characters, usually used to confirm a user's identity. Traditionally, passwords were expected to be memorized, but the large number of password-protected services t ...
''), Bolen moved the game to 10:30a.m. Eastern (9:30 Central) on January 7, 1974, putting it up against
CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...
' ''
The $10,000 Pyramid ''Pyramid'' is an American game show franchise that has aired several versions domestically and internationally. The show was developed by Bob Stewart. The original series, ''The $10,000 Pyramid'', debuted on CBS on March 26, 1973, and spawned ...
,''NBC Master Books, Daily Broadcast Log, Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. to make room for '' Jackpot!,'' a stylish, youth-oriented riddle contest hosted by
Geoff Edwards Geoffrey Bruce Owen Edwards (February 13, 1931 – March 5, 2014) was an American television actor, game show host, and radio personality. Starting in the early 2000s, he was also a writer and broadcaster on the subject of travel. Background P ...
, in ''Jeopardy!'' former timeslot. Bolen and other NBC executives were surprised, though, when ''Jeopardy!'' actually beat ''Pyramid'' for several weeks in February and March, prompting CBS to cancel ''Pyramid'' for failing to draw, according to packager Bob Stewart (who also produced ''Jackpot!''), a 30 share that CBS daytime executives required a show to have in order to stay on its daytime schedule (''Pyramid'' returned several weeks later on ABC in an afternoon slot and went on to become one of the most popular games of the 1970s and 1980s). CBS relocated ''
Gambit A gambit (from Italian , the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage. The word '' gambit'' is also sometimes used to describe si ...
'' to 10:30a.m. on April 1, which ran about even with ''Jeopardy!'' in the ratings, with ''Gambit'' having perhaps a slight lead, due to its more traditional housewife target audience. Remarkably, ''Jeopardy!'' stayed strong despite losing much of its core audience, who was usually either at work or in classrooms during that hour and thus could not watch the show then. However, Bolen was not interested in seeing an aging show like ''Jeopardy!'' stand in the way of her plans for a more youthful image for NBC's daytime lineup, so she resolved to prepare it for eventual cancellation, a rare instance of a network deliberately trying to undermine one of its programs. So, on July 1 of the same year, NBC moved ''Jeopardy!'' to yet another timeslot, this time to 1:30p.m. EST (12:30p.m. CST) (replacing '' Three on a Match,'' yet another Bob Stewart-produced game) and placed it against
ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Broadcasting * Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American ...
's ''
Let's Make a Deal ''Let's Make a Deal'' (also known as ''LMAD'') is a television game show that originated in the United States in 1963 and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The program was created and produced by Stefan Hatos and Mo ...
'' and CBS' ''
As the World Turns ''As the World Turns'' (often abbreviated as ''ATWT'') is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created ''As the World Turns'' as a sister show to her other so ...
,'' both of which had easily beaten the ratings of several programs placed in that same time slot by NBC since December 1968. At that time, ''Deal'' moved to ABC from NBC, which had carried it in that very time slot during much of the 1960s, in a dispute by packagers Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall over the latter network's refusal to make a weekly primetime version of the show permanent. With the July move, many of the previously tenaciously devoted viewers began abandoning the program; most of the remaining ones were either middle-aged housewives or elderly retirees, two groups undesirable to advertisers due to their usually fixed retail brand preferences, rendering them unpersuadable to try new ones. As such, advertising revenues fell, a scenario not helped by the severe economic recession occurring in late 1974. ''Jeopardy!'' became the seventh show since 1968 to fall at 1:30p.m. EST (12:30p.m. CST), and a cancellation notice was issued by November 1974. Its replacement was the expansion of '' Another World'' to a full hour, the first daytime serial to expand to that duration; in April 1975, another serial, ''
Days of Our Lives ''Days of Our Lives'' (also stylized as ''Days of our Lives''; simply referred to as ''Days'' or ''DOOL'') is an American television soap opera that aired on the network NBC from November 8, 1965, to September 9, 2022; the soap has streamed n ...
'' began occupying that time slot and eventually brought success to NBC there (''Days'' moved exclusively to the network streaming service
Peacock Peafowl is a common name for two bird species of the genus '' Pavo'' and one species of the closely related genus '' Afropavo'' within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae (the pheasants and their allies). Male peafowl are referred t ...
in September 2022, with '' NBC News Daily'' airing in its 1:30p.m. EST (12:30p.m. CST) timeslot.). ''Jeopardy!'' broadcast the 2,753rd and final episode of its original network run on January 3, 1975. Some affiliates, including
KNBC KNBC (channel 4) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast of the United States, West Coast flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network ...
in Los Angeles, aired reruns in various other timeslots through the first quarter of that year. To compensate Griffin for canceling the program, which still had a year left on its contract, NBC purchased '' Wheel of Fortune'', another creation of his, which premiered on January 6, 1975 (the following Monday) at 10:30a.m. Eastern (9:30 Central).


Weekly syndicated version (1974–1975)

Griffin secured the rights from NBC to produce new episodes for first-run syndication, with
Metromedia Metromedia, Inc. (also often MetroMedia) was an American media company that owned radio station, radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and controlled Orion Pictures from 1988 to 1997. Metromedia was established in ...
(who also syndicated Griffin's popular
talk show A talk show is a television programming, radio programming or podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show', pp.3-4Erler, Robert (201 ...
) as their distributor. Griffin took this action mainly to keep the show in production in light of the show's deteriorating ratings on NBC daytime that eventually led to the 1975 cancellation. NBC had repeatedly refused Griffin's requests to do so in the past. These episodes began airing weekly in September 1974 and featured many contestants who were previous champions on the NBC version. Thirty-nine episodes were produced, with reruns of this version also airing in syndication through about summer 1975. Most stations aired this during the Prime Time Access slots in the early evening before network primetime programming began, usually in a "checkerboard" pattern with other weekly shows, meaning a different syndicated show aired each night, like the networks in prime time. By 1974, though, the market was flooded with evening versions of network games like the ''Hollywood Squares'' and ''
The Price Is Right ''The Price Is Right'' is an American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes. A 1972 revival by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman of their The Price Is Right (1956 American game ...
,'' and ''Jeopardy!,'' already on a popularity downswing for some time, did not get anywhere near nationwide clearance, thus dooming it to failure after one season. Unique to this version was a bonus awarded at the end of the program, after Final Jeopardy! was completed. The episode's champion selected a prize hidden behind the thirty squares on the ''Jeopardy!'' board. Among the prizes was a $25,000 cash award which was hidden behind two squares. In order to win the top prize, the champion had to find both $25,000 cards in succession (winning the prize on a second pick if it was not the latter half of the grand prize). In later episodes, the bonus board was dropped and the evening's champion received a prize based upon his or her final score, with a
Chevrolet Vega The Chevrolet Vega is a Subcompact car, subcompact automobile manufactured and marketed by General Motors, GM's Chevrolet division from 1970 until 1977. Available in two-door hatchback, notchback, station wagon, wagon, and sedan delivery body st ...
or
Chevrolet Caprice The Chevrolet Caprice is a full-size car produced by Chevrolet in North America for the 1965 through 1996 model years. Full-size Chevrolet sales peaked in 1965, with over a million units sold. It was the most popular car in the U.S. in the 19 ...
(or even additional cash prizes of $10,000 or $25,000) as possibilities.


''The All-New Jeopardy!'' (1978–1979)

Launching on October 2, 1978, the revived ''Jeopardy!'' took the spot of the soap opera '' For Richer, For Poorer'' on NBC's daytime schedule and initially aired weekdays at 10:30a.m. From its debut until January 5, 1979, ''Jeopardy!'' aired against the first half-hour of the hit show ''
The Price Is Right ''The Price Is Right'' is an American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes. A 1972 revival by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman of their The Price Is Right (1956 American game ...
'', which aired on CBS. As such, the show found itself unable to build an audience. On January 8, 1979, NBC moved ''Jeopardy!'' from 10:30a.m. to noon, the time slot the original series had occupied and done well in for many years. However, the television climate in 1979 was much different than it was in the 1960s and early 1970s. The 12:00p.m. hour was one that network affiliates often chose to preempt in favor of showing other programming such as a midday local newscast or a syndicated offering such as another game show or a talk show. In markets that did air ''Jeopardy!'' at noon, the show found itself losing the ratings battle against ''
The $20,000 Pyramid ''Pyramid'' is an American game show franchise that has aired several versions domestically and internationally. The show was developed by Bob Stewart. The original series, ''The $10,000 Pyramid'', debuted on CBS on March 26, 1973, and spawned ...
'' on ABC and ''
The Young and the Restless ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in the fictional Genoa City (named after the real-life Genoa City, Wiscon ...
'' on CBS, two shows that, ironically enough, had competed against the original in 1974 and 1973, respectively. NBC decided to pull the plug on the revived ''Jeopardy!'' series shortly after the move, and its 108th and final episode aired on March 2, 1979. Its place on the schedule was taken by ''
Password Plus ''Password Plus'' and ''Super Password'' are American TV game shows that aired separately between 1979 and 1989. Both shows were revivals of ''Password'', which originally ran from 1961 to 1975 in various incarnations. With only subtle differen ...
'', which at the time had been airing at 12:30p.m., and the cancellation allowed NBC to expand its top-rated soap opera, '' Another World'', to ninety minutes from sixty, later in the afternoon. Originating from the NBC Studios in
Burbank, California Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank had a Census-estimated population of 102,755 as of 2023. The city was ...
, this version featured some unique gameplay elements of its own. In the most notable of these elements, the lowest scoring contestant was eliminated from further play after the Jeopardy! round.Merv Griffin Productions. ''The All-New Jeopardy!''. Final episode. Starring Art Fleming. Featuring Charlie, Susan, and Doug. March 2, 1979. The remaining two contestants played the Double Jeopardy! round. In a second major change, no Final Jeopardy! round was played. Instead, the leader at the end of Double Jeopardy! was declared the day's champion. Most notable among the changes, Final Jeopardy! was replaced with a bonus game called Super Jeopardy!, played for a cash bonus. The round consisted of five categories (instead of six as in the main game), each with five clues numbered 1 to 5. The object of the round was to answer five questions to create a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line on the board. Contestants had to create the line before accumulating three strikes, which were given if a contestant either failed to respond (passing was not allowed without penalty) or gave an incorrect answer. If the contestant struck out, $100 was awarded for each correct answer given, but if the contestant was successful, he/she won $5,000. For each successive time a champion played the Super Jeopardy! round, regardless of whether or not the contestant had won the round the day before, he/she played for $2,500 more than he/she had the previous time—a second trip was played for $7,500, a third $10,000, a fourth $12,500, and a fifth and final trip $15,000. A contestant could earn $50,000 from Super Jeopardy! alone, provided that the contestant won each Super Jeopardy! round over a five-day reign as champion.Merv Griffin Productions. ''The All-New Jeopardy!''. Premiere episode. Starring Art Fleming. Featuring Jim, Richard, and Emily. October 2, 1978. Fleming later stated that he disagreed with moving the show to southern California, as he considered the contestants there to not be as appealing as those who played the game in New York were. He cited it as one of the main reasons he did not return to the series when it was revived five years later.
What is Jeopardy!?
'', 05.01.89 – ''Sports Illustrated''


Daily Syndication (1984–present)

Following the success of the nighttime syndicated version of ''Wheel'' which had premiered in 1983, Griffin sold a new syndicated version of ''Jeopardy!'' to its same distributor,
King World Productions King World Productions, Inc. (also known as King World Entertainment, King World Enterprises, or simply King World) was a production company and syndicator of television programming in the United States founded by Charles King (1912–72) that ...
(which much later folded into CBS Television Distribution, now
CBS Media Ventures CBS Media Ventures, Inc. (formerly CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Television Distribution) is the television broadcast syndication arm of CBS Studios, a division of the CBS Entertainment Group, in turn a division of Paramount Global, ...
). This version introduced updated technology to the program, replacing the former manually operated game board featuring clues printed on pull cards with television monitors to display clues. One significant difference from the 1964 to 1975 versions was that only the winning contestant kept his or her earnings, while the runners-up were awarded higher-end consolation prizes instead (changed in later years to $3,000 for second place and $2,000 for third). After Fleming declined to return to the show because of his dissatisfaction with the changes, Griffin took the advice of
Lucille Ball Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive. She was recognized by ''Time (magazine), Time'' in 2020 as one of the most influential women of the 20th century for h ...
, who recommended
Alex Trebek George Alexander Trebek (; July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020) was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. He was best known for hosting the syndicated general knowledge quiz game show ''Jeopardy!'' for 37 seasons ...
for the position. Trebek, in turn, recommended
Johnny Gilbert John Lewis Gilbert III (born July 13, 1928) is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from variou ...
, whom he had met at a dinner party a few years prior, for the announcer position. The Trebek version debuted September 10, 1984. Trebek continued to host the program until his death in November 2020, with his final recorded episode airing January 8, 2021; a series of guest hosts helmed the series for the remainder of that season. Mike Richards, the show's executive producer, was named host prior to start of the 2021–22 season but resigned after the first week of episodes when a string of controversies emerged after Richards's hiring;
Mayim Bialik Mayim Chaya Bialik ( ; born December 12, 1975) is an American actress, author, and former game show host. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of the NBC sitcom ''Blossom (American TV series), Blossom''. From 2010 to 2019, she play ...
and
Ken Jennings Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show host, former contestant, and author. He is best known for his work on the syndicated quiz show ''Jeopardy!'' as a contestant and later its host. Jennings was born in Edm ...
(the latter being a consulting producer and prominent former contestant) rotated as host from then until Bialik went on strike in summer 2023 and was dismissed from her role in December of that year, leaving Jennings the permanent host.


Early years

Initially, ''Jeopardy!'' was relegated by managers of some television stations to unpopular time slots, and it was not unusual for both ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel'' to air either non-consecutively, on different stations, or even against each other. However, the new version built upon early ratings successes in
Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...
and Detroit, where it was slotted in the same 7:00–8:00p.m. block (the Prime Time access hour) in which ''Wheel'' also appeared. Coinciding with the peak of popularity for the board game ''
Trivial Pursuit ''Trivial Pursuit'' is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question the ...
'' and the installation of electronic trivia games (e.g.
NTN Buzztime NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms. Its most well-known product, simply called Buzztime, and formerly known as the NTN Network, since 1985, broadcasts trivia and other games via broa ...
) in pubs and bars, ''Jeopardy!'' was slowly becoming a major success despite some markets still airing it in unfavorable time slots. One such market was New York City, the largest in the United States. There, King World sold its new show to
WNBC WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City that serves as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey� ...
, which had been the
flagship A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of navy, naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag. Used more loosely, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically ...
of the original ''Jeopardy!''. When it premiered in the fall of 1984, ''Jeopardy!'' initially aired at 1:30a.m. on WNBC, following ''
Late Night with David Letterman ''Late Night with David Letterman'' is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the first installment of the '' Late Night''. Hosted by David Letterman, it aired from February1, 1982 to June 25, 1993, and was replaced by ...
''. Although the series was indeed proving to be a hit, its late timeslot in the country's largest media market began to concern its distributor. Even though Letterman's show and ''
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show was the third installment of ''The Tonight Show''. Hosted by Johnny Carson, it aired from October 1, 1962 to May 22, 1992, replacing ''T ...
'' were strong ratings winners and ''Jeopardy!'' was able to retain a good amount of the audience from its lead-in shows, a late-night timeslot is not usually considered beneficial for a first-run series, cutting out younger audiences with obligations to school or college, and older viewers. WNBC's more favorable fringe time and
daytime Daytime or day as observed on Earth is the period of the day during which a given location experiences Daylight, natural illumination from direct sunlight. Daytime occurs when the Sun appears above the local horizon, that is, anywhere on the ...
slots were all filled with other programming, a situation that was also true at all of the other major stations in the city; WABC and WCBS also cleared their networks' schedules completely and had other programming, including other long-running syndicated game shows and reruns, filing the holes in their schedules, as did independents
WNEW-TV WNYW (channel 5) is a television station in New York City, serving as the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship of the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside Secauc ...
,
WOR-TV WWOR-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York metropolitan area as the flagship of the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alo ...
and
WPIX WPIX (channel 11) is a television station in New York City, serving as the ''de facto'' flagship of The CW Television Network. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, the station is operated by CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group under a local market ...
, which also carried cartoons in addition to reruns. In addition, CBS and ABC at the time were still airing network programming until 4:30 p.m. Eastern, with ABC airing the long-running soap opera ''
The Edge of Night ''The Edge of Night'' is an American mystery crime drama soap opera, created by Irving Vendig and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network for most of its ...
'' and CBS running the game show ''
Body Language Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behaviors, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use o ...
''. On October 26, 1984, several weeks into ''Jeopardy!''’s first season,
Procter & Gamble Productions The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/cons ...
announced that it would cease production of ''The Edge of Night'' after 28 years and that ABC would no longer offer regular programming in the timeslot, with ''Edge's'' last episode airing December 28. King World went to WABC, who now had an open spot on its schedule it needed to fill, and the two struck an agreement to move ''Jeopardy!'' to the station beginning December 31, 1984. WABC has aired ''Jeopardy!'' in the New York market ever since, initially in the 4:00 p.m. time slot. The switch helped more viewers find ''Jeopardy!,'' since they no longer had to stay up past midnight to see it. In Los Angeles,
KCBS-TV KCBS-TV (channel 2), branded CBS Los Angeles, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast of the United States, West Coast flagship station of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the n ...
picked up ''Jeopardy!'' to air at 4:00 p.m. as a lead-in to its local news at 4:30 p.m. Five weeks later, however, due to low ratings, KCBS replaced ''Jeopardy!'' with reruns of '' Quincy, M.E.''. Effective January 7, 1985, ''Jeopardy!'' was picked up by then-
independent station An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast television network, network. As such, it only broadcasts broadcast syndication, syndicated programs it has purchased; brokered pr ...
KCOP-TV KCOP-TV (channel 13), branded Fox 11 Plus, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship station of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet K ...
, where it was paired with ''Wheel of Fortune''. ''Jeopardy!'' later returned to KCBS on September 4, 1989, along with ''Wheel''. Then three years later, both game shows were picked up by
KABC-TV KABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship station of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station mai ...
, where they remain since then.


Prime Time Access shakeup

WABC added ''
Oprah Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', broadcast from Chic ...
'' to its lineup in the fall of 1986, and placed it at 10:00 a.m., following its locally produced talk show '' The Morning Show''. Having its roots in a local morning show at WABC's
sister station In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement. Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
in Chicago, ''Oprah'' was an immediate success and in December 1986, WABC decided to move it to the 4:00 p.m. timeslot. The move, which turned out to be permanent as ''Oprah'' remained at 4:00 p.m. for the next 24-plus years, displaced the game shows airing there; ''Jeopardy!'' at 4:00 p.m. and a syndicated edition of
Card Sharks ''Card Sharks'' is an American television game show. It was created by Chester Feldman for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Contestants attempt to predict the outcome of survey questions to gain control of a row of oversized playing cards ...
, hosted by
Bill Rafferty William Rafferty (June 17, 1944 – August 11, 2012) was an American comedian and impressionist who hosted the game shows '' Every Second Counts'' (1984–1985, syndicated), ''Card Sharks ''Card Sharks'' is an American television game show ...
at 4:30. Like previous shows that aired in the 4:30 p.m. slot following ''Jeopardy!'', ''Card Sharks'' proved unable to retain a good percentage of its lead-in's audience, and WABC moved it to 12:05 a.m. following ''
Nightline ''Nightline'' (or ''ABC News Nightline'') is ABC News (United States), ABC News' Late night television in the United States, late-night television news program broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC in the United States with a franchis ...
''. Moving ''Jeopardy!'' to a similar slot was not an option due to its success in the ratings, and all other non-network slots were spoken for. WABC, however, had another idea. At the time, and like its major competitors, WABC aired an hour of local news at 6:00 p.m. and followed it with their network's national newscast, in this case '' World News Tonight'', at 7:00 p.m.. The 7:30 p.m. slot was filled by a syndicated revival of ''
Hollywood Squares ''Hollywood Squares'' (originally ''The Hollywood Squares'', later stylized as ''H2: Hollywood Squares'') is an American game show in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show originally aired as a ...
'', hosted by John Davidson which debuted in the fall of 1986, and was performing well for WABC against the immensely popular ''Wheel of Fortune'' on WCBS. Seeing those ratings, WABC thought it could draw equal or better ratings with ''Jeopardy!'' in the 7:00 p.m slot. ABC did not require its stations to air ''World News Tonight'' at a specific time, giving WABC the freedom to make the move if it wanted. On December 15, 1986, the same day ''Oprah'' moved to 4:00p.m., WABC reduced the 6:00p.m. broadcast of ''Eyewitness News'' by 30 minutes and moved ''World News Tonight'' to 6:30, with ''Jeopardy!'' airing at 7:00 and ''Squares'' following it at 7:30. To alert viewers to the timeslot changes, WABC launched an advertising campaign entitled "Prime Time Begins At 7 On 7". In addition, WABC filled part of Oprah's vacated 10:00a.m. slot with a repeat of the previous evening's broadcast of ''Jeopardy!'' until September 1987. The move produced a ratings win in both the 6:30 and 7:00p.m. time slots, as ''World News Tonight'' also benefited from the switch; this, along with the rise of WABC's ''Eyewitness News'' in the New York ratings books, paved the way for WABC to become the most-watched television station in the New York market. Eventually, WCBS and WNBC capitulated, and their networks' respective national newscasts moved to 6:30p.m. as well. After moving the ''
CBS Evening News The ''CBS Evening News'' is the flagship evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The ''CBS Evening News'' is a daily evening broadcast featu ...
'' to 6:30p.m. in the fall of 1988, WCBS picked up a syndicated edition of the NBC game show ''
Win, Lose or Draw ''Win, Lose or Draw'' is an American television game show that aired from 1987 to 1990 in syndication and on NBC. It was taped at CBS Television City (one of the few non- CBS game shows to tape there), often in Studios 31, 33, and 43 at vari ...
'' to air at 7:00p.m. as a lead-in for ''Wheel'', while WNBC, (which eventually moved ''
NBC Nightly News ''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas'' for its weeknight broadcasts ) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NBC television network ...
'' to 6:30 in 1991), eventually began airing newsmagazines (such as ''
Inside Edition ''Inside Edition'' is an American tabloid television program that is distributed in Broadcast syndication, first-run syndication by CBS Media Ventures. Having premiered on January 9, 1989, it is the longest-running syndicated-newsmagazine progr ...
'') and a new syndicated version of ''
Family Feud ''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. Two families compete on each episode to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. The show has had three separate runs, the ...
'', hosted by
Ray Combs Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second ...
, (who also hosted the show's daytime revival on CBS) in the half-hour prior to prime time. WABC has aired ''Jeopardy!'' at 7:00 ever since, though the same lead-out issues plagued the station. ''Squaress ratings declined in the 1987-88 season and ''
Entertainment Tonight ''Entertainment Tonight'' (or simply ''ET'') is an American Broadcast syndication, first-run syndicated news broadcasting news magazine, newsmagazine program that is distributed by CBS Media Ventures throughout the United States and owned by Par ...
'', which had been airing the previous two seasons on
WWOR-TV WWOR-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York metropolitan area as the flagship of the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alon ...
, (the former WOR-TV that had been sold the previous year in the midst of an unrelated ownership dispute), replaced ''Squares'' as the ''Jeopardy!'' lead-out in the fall of 1988; ''Squares'' would air on
WPIX WPIX (channel 11) is a television station in New York City, serving as the ''de facto'' flagship of The CW Television Network. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, the station is operated by CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group under a local market ...
for the 1988-89 season, which turned out to be its last. In 1990, '' Entertainment Tonight'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' swapped stations, as WCBS had opted to air newsmagazine and entertainment programming in the early fringe timeslot; ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel'' have remained on WABC ever since. WABC's successful access hour move eventually resulted in many Eastern and Pacific Time Zone network affiliates moving their network newscasts to 6:30p.m. While affiliates in the Central and Mountain time zones generally program ''Wheel'' at 6:30 p.m., however, ''Jeopardy!'' largely airs in late afternoon (and in some cases, morning) timeslots, as these stations typically air local newscasts in the half-hour following their networks' respective national ones. ''Jeopardy!'' has since become a staple syndicated show for ABC's owned-and-operated station group, and seven of its eight stations (WABC, KABC/Los Angeles, WLS/Chicago,
WPVI WPVI-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned and operated by the ABC television network through its ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on City Avenue in the ...
/Philadelphia, KGO/San Francisco,
WTVD WTVD (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area. Owned and operated by the ABC television network through its ABC Owned Television Stations division, it maintains s ...
/Raleigh-Durham and KFSN/Fresno) have carried the show along with ''Wheel'' since 1992. The only exception has long been KTRK in Houston, which had never carried both game shows in part due to an hour-long newscast in the Prime Time Access hour where ''Wheel'' is normally seen (and whose hour-long newscast predated parent company Capital Cities' acquisition of ABC in 1986); both game shows have aired on different Houston stations: first on NBC affiliate KPRC from their respective start dates until 1986, and then to CBS affiliate
KHOU KHOU (channel 11) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Conroe-licensed Quest station KTBU (channel 55). The two stations share studios on Westheimer Road near ...
which also carried ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' over its entire run (making KTRK the only ABC owned-and-operated station that never carried ''Oprah'' over its 25-year run). However, on September 14, 2015, KTRK began airing ''Jeopardy!'', making it the last ABC-owned station to do so, though ''Wheel of Fortune'' continues to air on KHOU, as KTRK still carries an hour-long block of local newscasts (both separate half-hour newscasts, for ratings purposes) in the 6:00p.m. access hour.


Transition to high definition

On September 11, 2006, with the start of Season 23, ''Jeopardy!'' began broadcasting in high definition. King World and production company
Sony Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production company, production and broadcast syndication, distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, California, it is a division o ...
indicated that as of August 10, 2006, some 49 of the 210 stations that carried the show at that time were prepared for the transition. Sony uses the
1080i In high-definition television (HDTV) and video display technology, 1080i is a video display format with 1080 lines of vertical resolution and Interlaced video, interlaced scanning method. This format was once a standard in HDTV. It was particular ...
HD format to record the show, but since ''Jeopardy!'' is syndicated, stations using the
720p 720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1). All major HD broadcasting standards (such as SMPTE 292M) includ ...
format had to manually transcode the show from an HD satellite feed before broadcasting it. This issue was remedied with the introduction of the Pathfire satellite system for high-definition syndicated content distribution.


Ratings and critical reception

Since its debut, the syndicated version of ''Jeopardy!'' has gone on to win sixteen Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, achieving this honor most recently in 2017, and today it holds the record as the most honored program in this Emmy award category. The show was the subject of great interest and increased ratings (often out-performing ''Wheel'' and even some primetime programs) in the early portions of the 2004–05 season as contestant
Ken Jennings Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show host, former contestant, and author. He is best known for his work on the syndicated quiz show ''Jeopardy!'' as a contestant and later its host. Jennings was born in Edm ...
, taking advantage of newly relaxed appearance rules, won 74 matches before being defeated by Nancy Zerg in his 75th appearance. He amassed $2,520,700 over the course of his winning streak, as well as a $2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appearance, thus earning the record as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows, and his winning streak led the show to become TV's highest-rated syndicated program.


Renewals and rerun deals

On January 2, 2007, one third of the subscribing stations originally renewed ''Jeopardy!'' through Season 28 (2011–12), but by April 8, 2010, ''Jeopardy!'' was given an additional two-year renewal through Season 30 (2013–14). Then in 2012, Trebek and ''Wheel'' personalities
Pat Sajak Patrick Leonard Sajak ( ; né , born October 26, 1946) is an American game show host, television personality, and creative consultant. He is best known as the host of the television game show '' Wheel of Fortune'', a position which he held fr ...
and
Vanna White Vanna Marie White (née Rosich; born February 18, 1957) is an American television personality and game-show hostess, best known as the co-host of the game show '' Wheel of Fortune'', a position she has held since 1982. She began her career as a ...
renewed their respective contracts when the shows' ABC-owned affiliates renewed both game shows through the 2015–16 season. In November 2018, the ABC-owned-and-operated stations renewed their agreement to carry ''Wheel'' and ''Jeopardy!'' through 2023, rebuffing a larger contract offer from
Fox Corporation Fox Corporation (commonly referred to as Fox Corp or simply Fox) is an American multinational mass media company headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, with offices also in Burbank, Cali ...
. CBS has long viewed stability as key to the shows' success, desiring to keep the shows on ABC stations to maintain continuity; it has declined to move the shows to its own owned-and-operated station group for the same reason it rejected Fox's bid. Since the mid-2010s,
CBS Media Ventures CBS Media Ventures, Inc. (formerly CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Television Distribution) is the television broadcast syndication arm of CBS Studios, a division of the CBS Entertainment Group, in turn a division of Paramount Global, ...
has offered stations up to two episodes of ''Jeopardy!'' to air each weekday: the first run (which airs new episodes from September to July), and a "classic ''Jeopardy!''" package consisting of episodes from the previous year. As of December 2023, every TV market in the U.S., except for
Glendive, Montana Glendive is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Montana, United States, and home to Dawson Community College. Glendive was established by the Northern Pacific Railway during the building of the railroad line. The town of Glendive is ...
, has a local TV station that airs the program:
NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...
affiliates constitute a plurality of the stations, while
ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Broadcasting * Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American ...
affiliates reach the most viewers. Some local TV stations which carry ''Jeopardy!'' also hold in-market on-demand streaming rights to the five most recent episodes, subject to technical capability. For example,
Sinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb o ...
's Stirr service began to carry the program in the markets where Sinclair stations air the program, such as Washington, D.C. (
WJLA WJLA-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with ABC. It is one of two flagship stations of Sinclair Broadcast Group (alongside dual Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFF hannel 45in Baltimore), and is also sister t ...
) and Seattle ( KOMO), from late 2020 until Sinclair sold Stirr off to another company. Under the terms of the agreement, individual stations have a 24-hour window in which they can stream the program in-market, after which the rights revert to Sony. Outside of the U.S., ''Jeopardy!'' airs on the
American Forces Network The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the United States Armed Forces provides to soldiers stationed or assigned overseas, and is headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland. AFN comprises two sub ...
, and Canadian stations
Yes TV Yes TV (stylized as yes TV) is an independently owned Canadian nonprofit and Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission-licensed religious broadcasting television system in Canada. It consists of three conventional over-the- ...
,
CHEK Chek or CHEK may refer to: * Chek (brand), soft drink brand of Winn-Dixie * Chek (unit), Cantonese pronunciation of a traditional Chinese unit of length * CHEK-DT, a TV station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada * places in Kyrgyzstan: ** Che ...
and NTV. Australian TV network
SBS Viceland SBS Viceland (stylised as SBS VICELAND) is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). It began as SBS TWO on 1 June 2009, and was branded as SBS 2 between 2013 and 2016. On 8 April 2017, SBS V ...
airs former episodes with Trebek still as host, but in 2024 they will air episodes with Ken Jennings as host. Archival episode rights were most recently held by
Pluto TV Pluto TV is an American free ad-supported streaming television service owned and operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. Founded by Tom Ryan (business executive), Tom Ryan, Ilya Pozin and Nick Grouf in 2013 and based in ...
, which like CBS Media Ventures is owned by
Paramount Paramount (from the word ''paramount'' meaning "above all others") may refer to: Entertainment and music companies * Paramount Global, also known simply as Paramount, an American mass media company formerly known as ViacomCBS. **Paramount Picture ...
. Pluto launched a continuous linear channel of episodes from the Trebek era in August 2022. The Pluto deal covers 500 episodes of the series spanning most of Trebek's hosting run, with an emphasis on major tournaments. The Pluto deal with Jeopardy! expired after two years, at the end of July 2024, ahead of a new streaming agreement yet to be announced. Select episodes of ''Jeopardy!'' had been available intermittently on
Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ...
until August 2021; the agreement with Pluto allows Sony to continue selling episodes of the series to subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) providers. In 2024, host Ken Jennings indicated that Sony was in negotiations with
Hulu Hulu (, ) is an American Subscription business model, subscription streaming media service owned by Disney Streaming, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company. It was launched on October 29, 2007, initially as ...
(which, like ABC, is owned by
The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...
) and
Amazon Prime Video Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced or co-produced by ...
(the home of an upcoming spinoff ''
Pop Culture Jeopardy! In 2013, Amazon began distributing original television shows through its Amazon Prime Video service, some of which are developed in-house by Amazon Studios (now Amazon MGM Studios). Original programming Drama Comedy Animation Adult animat ...
'') to bring next-day streaming to an SVOD platform by September 2025; executive producer Michael Davies also noted that the show had no plans of ever leaving broadcast television. In June 2025, Sony announced that the show would stream new episodes next day on both Hulu and
Peacock Peafowl is a common name for two bird species of the genus '' Pavo'' and one species of the closely related genus '' Afropavo'' within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae (the pheasants and their allies). Male peafowl are referred t ...
beginning with the shows 42nd season in September 2025.


Paramount-Sony dispute

In October 2024, Sony Pictures Television sued CBS parent company Paramount Global, alleging the company had entered into unauthorized licensing deals in Australia and New Zealand while pocketing all of the revenue. Sony also alleged that CBS engaged in self-dealing and underpriced the syndication package by forcing television stations to accept other, less popular shows from CBS's own production companies, also alleging that keeping the stations on ABC-owned stations while CBS's own stations aired ''Entertainment Tonight'' was further evidence of Sony being cheated. In a counterresponse, Paramount claimed that the original agreement with King World "decades ago" granted the syndicator distribution rights "in perpetuity" meaning that Sony could not seek other syndicators, and surmised that it was suing because "they simply don't like" it. Paramount countersued Sony to that effect in November. Sony Pictures Television announced on February 3, 2025, that that week's episodes of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' would be the last ones it would feed to CBS Media Ventures and that it would begin distributing episodes of those shows directly to affiliates beginning with the week of February 10. CBS sought and received a
restraining order A restraining order or protective order is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault. Restraining and perso ...
blocking Sony from doing so on February 6. However, on April 10, it was reported that the court had ruled in favor of Sony, thus resulting in CBS losing the distribution rights. CBS then confirmed they would submit an appeal immediately, which would get accepted on April 16 thus giving them the distribution rights back.


Spin-off programs


''Jep!''

''Jep!'', a children's version of the show, aired first on
Game Show Network Game Show Network (GSN) is an American basic cable channel owned by the television network division of Sony Pictures Television. The channel's programming is primarily dedicated to game shows, including reruns of acquired game shows, along wit ...
(now known by its abbreviated name, "GSN") throughout the 1998–99 season, and then on
Discovery Kids Discovery Kids, stylized as discovery k!ds, is a brand name owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Starting as a television block within Discovery Channel, the brand expanded as a separate television channel in October 1996. Discovery Kids on NBC was ...
through late 2004. It was hosted by cartoon voice actor
Bob Bergen Robert Berger (born March 8, 1964), known professionally as Bob Bergen, is an American voice actor. He voices Warner Bros. cartoon characters Porky Pig and Tweety and has voiced characters in the English dubs of various anime. He formerly hosted ...
, and produced by Scott Sternberg who had earlier produced a children's version of ''Wheel'', titled ''
Wheel 2000 ''Wheel 2000'' (also known as ''Wheel of Fortune 2000'') is a children's version of the American game show '' Wheel of Fortune,'' produced by Scott Sternberg Productions and Columbia TriStar Television (and the last version of ''Wheel'' of any so ...
''. Contestants on ''Jep!'' were young children aged 10 through 12, who competed for merchandise packages instead of monetary prizes, with clue values in points rather than dollars.


''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!''

''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'', a music-intensive version, debuted on
VH1 VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global's networks division based in New Y ...
on October 8, 1998 and ran for four seasons, ending on May 12, 2001. Hosted by ''
Survivor Survivor(s) may refer to: * one who survives Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities * Survivors, characters in the 1997 KKnD series#Armies, ''KKnD'' video-game series * ''The Survivors'', or the ''New Survivors Foundation'', a fictional ...
'' star
Jeff Probst Jeffrey Lee Probst (; born November 4, 1961) is an American television presenter and producer and young adult fiction writer. He is best known as the Emmy Awards, Emmy Award–winning host of the American version of the reality television show ' ...
, this version highlighted post-1950s popular music trivia rather than focusing on general knowledge. Announcers included Loretta Fox in seasons one and two, and Stew Herrera in seasons three and four.


''Sports Jeopardy!''

In fall 2014, Crackle, an online video portal owned by Sony, began exclusively carrying ''Sports Jeopardy!'', a themed version of the show with material focused entirely on sports trivia. Sportscaster Dan Patrick hosts the series, which produces new episodes once a week. Kelly Miyahara, a member of the ''Jeopardy!'' Clue Crew, serves as an on-camera announcer. Howie Schwab serves as off-camera judge and consultant. The series was picked up by
NBCSN NBCSN (also known as NBC Sports Network) was an American sports television television channel, channel owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It originally launched on July 1, 1995, as the Outdoor Lif ...
for the 2016 season. Each category has only four clues (250, 500, 750, and 1,000 in the Jeopardy! round, with those values doubled for Double Jeopardy!) compared to five in the parent series. The fewer clues allows Patrick and the contestants more time to interact during the interview portion of the show and during a "postgame" segment during and after the closing credits.


References


External links


Official Website of ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'' (via Internet Archive)



Official Website of ''Sports Jeopardy!''
* * {{Jeopardy! Broadcast Information History of television in the United States