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The Jeopardy! National College Championship premiered on ABC on February 8, 2022. Unlike Super Jeopardy! and The Greatest of All Time, this tournament is an annual event. There are a few differences from the previous syndicated tournament: The format was changed to expand the pool to 36 contestants, and there are twelve quarterfinal matches and ...
This was the first man-vs.-machine competition in Jeopardy! ' s history. [208] Watson won both the first game and the overall match to win the grand prize of $1 million, which IBM divided between two charities (World Vision International and World Community Grid). [209]
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
With a grand prize of $500,000 (and a shiny “champion” title) on the line, this year’s tournament will feature Jeopardy! Masters 2023 champion James Holzhauer, returning contestants Matt ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Alex Trebek will host a special television event, 'Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time' in January 2020, with three fan-favorites set to return.
Trebek himself was recognized with the Order of Canada and a Guinness World Record for hosting the most episodes of a game show; according to Jeopardy!, it was more than 8,000 in all.
Rutter retained the Jeopardy! record by defeating Jennings in the finals of the Battle of the Decades tournament in 2014. After his success on Jeopardy!, Jennings wrote of his experience and explored American trivia history and culture in Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, published in 2006.