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 given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, phrasing each response in the form of a question.
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| Country of origin | United States
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| Original language | English
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| No. of seasons | 38
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| No. of episodes | over 8,000
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| Running time | 22–26 minutes
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| Original release | March 30, 1964 –
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- Ken Jennings currently holds the title for most wins on the show. He has won 74 times in a row.
- Five shows are taped on Monday, and five shows are taped on Tuesday. Therefore two weeks worth of shows are taped each week.
- In the first season, contestants could buzz in as soon as the question was revealed. Starting in the second season, the contestants had to wait until host Trebek finished reading the question before they could buzz in. If they buzzed before this, they were "locked out".
- Initially, contestants who won five matches retired as an "undefeated champion" and returned for a $100,000 tournament of champions. Starting around 1997, five day champions also won a new car that they selected from about five. Starting in 2003-2004, the five day limit was lifted, and contestants could keep on being a champion as long as they kept winning.
- The dollar values of the categories were doubled in 2001. The lowest value was $200 in round one, the highest $1000, and the lowest in round two $400 and the highest $2000.
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