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2 unusual facts about Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions


Chuck Forrest

He went on to win the 1986 Tournament of Champions.

Michael George Dupée

Dupee is noted for being the only contestant to play and win from all 3 podiums on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! At the time that he won the 1996 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, he was the 4th biggest winner in Jeopardy! history.


Amanda Tanen

The two shared a rowdy Thanksgiving in the office together, drinking champagne, playing with couture gowns, and placing a prank phone call to the mysterious bandaged woman, which placed both their jobs in jeopardy.

Bermuda carriage bell

A Bermuda carriage bell was also used to provide the Daily Double sound effect on the original version of Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming.

Bot Colony

As the characters in Bot Colony learn from their users, a natural evolution of Bot Colony will be towards a MMO game in which the characters of different users compete in some area (as in a Jeopardy!-style game for robots) or cooperate in a task.

Camel Club

Stone met him and got him on the TV show Jeopardy! With medication, Farb was able to make a small fortune, with which he started a company for designing Web sites.

Clay Puett

In 1988, Puett was featured as part of a question on the game show Jeopardy!

Colonial Penn

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek commonly appears as a compensated endorser for Colonial Penn advertisements.

Craig-James Moncur

Best known for his role as "Harry Hastings" in BAFTA Winning CBBC Series Jeopardy, as well as roles in Monarch of the Glen, Inspector Rebus and How Not to Live Your Life.

Daniel Hsia

Hsia's first feature, the drama/comedy Shanghai Calling (2012) is about an ambitious New York Attorney named Sam Chao (played by Daniel Henney) who is sent to Shanghai, China on assignment for a case and gets mixed up in a dilemma that puts his career in jeopardy.

Denice Duff

Denice's television movies of the week include Double Jeopardy co-starring Bruce Boxleitner and Rachel Ward, and in Robin Cook's Invasion with Rebecca Gayheart and Luke Perry.

Dennis Franklin

After retiring from football, Franklin rose to vice president at King World Productions in New York City, a television distributor that produced Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Oprah.

Görmeli

Sadly, the future of this historical bridge is in jeopardy as it is going to be submerged by the Ermenek Dam, currently under construction.

Graham Polak

Late on 28 June 2008, Polak was struck by a Melbourne tram, and was placed in an induced coma with bruising to the brain, putting his football career in jeopardy.

Hans-Jürgen Bäumler

The name of the show was Riskant (Risky. a Germany version of Jeopardy!).

Ian Lygo

On November 30, 2004, this record was tied by Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!.

IBM Research

IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.

Jay Rosenberg

Rosenberg won about $50,000 on the television game show Jeopardy! in 1985 and returned for the program's Ultimate Tournament of Champions.

Jeopardy! song

I Lost on Jeopardy, a parody of the Greg Kihn Band song by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Jerome Vered

In the 2005 Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Vered won five games to advance to a three-game final match against fellow Jeopardy! record-setters Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

KGUN-TV

Syndicated programming currently featured on KGUN-TV includes: Wheel of Fortune, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The World's Funniest Moments, Jeopardy!, Law & Order, Live! with Kelly and Michael and Inside Edition.

KHQA-TV

Syndicated programming on KHQA includes Wheel of Fortune, The Dr. Oz Show, Ellen, and Jeopardy!.

Kim Spradlin

English professor Ellen Sorg compared Spradlin's Survivor win with the notable winning streak of Ken Jennings, a contestant on Jeopardy! in 2004.

King World Productions

A year later, King World bought the syndication rights to another Griffin show, Jeopardy!, and the latest version of the series (with Alex Trebek) has since become the number-two show in syndication.

KNVN

KNVN airs all NBC-produced and most syndicated shows in HD, such as Live! with Kelly and Michael, Anderson, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, NUMB3RS, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Without a Trace.

KTAB-TV

Syndicated programming on KTAB includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, The World's Funniest Moments, and The 700 Club.

KTVZ

Syndicated programming on KTVZ includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Dr. Oz, Live with Kelly, and Dr. Phil.

Lock-out device

Perhaps the most famous modern game show to use a lock-out device is Jeopardy!, which uses a sophisticated system that is so fundamental to the game, mastering the signaling device is commonly said to be as or more important than knowing the answers to the questions.

Love Connection

For many years it was third behind Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! for longest lasting game show in syndication, but since has been surpassed by Family Feud and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Megan Jendrick

In 2006, Jendrick was the subject of a question on the December 6 episode of the game show Jeopardy!.

Monolithos

The book is divided into two sections: One - 1962 contains revised and collected poems from Views of Jeopardy, while Two Monolithos 1982 consists of new poems, written mainly on the Greek islands of Paros and Santorini.

Rikki Clarke

By the time the tour finally finished in early May, Clarke's international career looked in serious jeopardy, but he was given one more chance by injuries to Flintoff and Marcus Trescothick early in the summer of 2004.

Rockingham Speedway

Rumors persisted that the track's lone remaining date was also in jeopardy, as several new tracks in larger, warm-weather markets coveted the date, which was the first race following the Daytona 500, and in 2002 and 2004, Fox's first race of the season.

Sam Barthe School for Boys

Much like the popular quiz shows Jeopardy!, the Prep Quiz Bowl featured teams of highly gifted academic students from schools of all sizes from around the region, testing students knowledge and game strategy in a head-to-head elimination tournament lasting several weeks.

Susan Sackett

Following her own advice as outlined in the book, in 1985 Susan went on Jeopardy! and won $10,000 in cash and prizes.

This Modern World

I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man is an ardent defender of Adam Smith's invisible hand metaphor, and usually intervenes in situations where the purity of free market economics is in jeopardy.

WAKR

Since taking to the air, WAKR has been the home to many personalities who would become national stars, among them film actors Lola Albright and Mark Stevens; radio names Peter Hackes, Scott Muni and Charlie Greer; and the first host of TV's Jeopardy! Art Fleming (known there as Art Fazzin).

WBKB-TV

Syndicated programming on the station includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Ellen, and Dr. Phil among others.

WBUP

Syndicated programming on WBUP includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Entertainment Tonight, and The Insider among others.

WECT

Syndicated programming on WECT includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, The Doctors, America Now, Ellen, and Live! with Kelly and Michael.

WLIO

Syndicated programming on this station includes Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Entertainment Tonight, and Inside Edition among others.

World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions

World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions is a video game based on the popular gambling tournament World Series of Poker.

WTOV-TV

Syndicated programming on the station includes: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Katie, Dr. Phil, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and Live! with Kelly and Michael.


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