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In its April 17–23, 1993, issue, TV Guide named Jeopardy! the best game show of the 1970s as part of a celebration of the magazine's 40th anniversary. [183] In January 2001, the magazine ranked the program number 2 on its "50 Greatest Game Shows" list—second only to The Price Is Right . [ 184 ]
Jeopardy! is an American media franchise that began with a television quiz show created by Merv Griffin, in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of a question. Over the years, the show has expanded its brand beyond television and been licensed into products of various ...
The first-ever episode of the show premiered in 1964 and was on air until 1975. "The All New Jeopardy!" then ran from 1978 to 1979. Both of those shows were canceled, and today's version of ...
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
It was the start of an entirely new era of the Merv Griffin-created show, which had been hosted by Art Fleming in daytime and in an earlier syndicated version between 1969 and 1974. Trebek's ...
The only contestant to date to beat Spangenberg's record is James Holzhauer, who won $298,687 in his first five games. [41] Spangenberg also won Jeopardy! 's 10th Anniversary Tournament in 1993, winning $41,800, [42] and previously appeared in the 1990 Tournament of Champions and Super Jeopardy! earlier that year.
"Jeopardy!" host Ken Jennings apologized to a female contestant after a clue negatively referenced girls wearing glasses. A 'problematic' 'Jeopardy!' answer had Ken Jennings apologizing to a ...
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, in which contestants are presented with trivia 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 ...