Jeopardy!
- United States: Art Flemming (1964-1975, 1978-1979) Alex Trebek (since 1984)
- Germany: ( 1990 to 1993, under the title risky ) Hans -Jürgen Baumler Frank Elstner (1994-1998) Gerriet Danz (1998-2000)
Jeopardy! (English for Danger ') is a television quiz show.
The game is a quiz form in which the participants responses from various categories are presented. Task of the participants is to formulate faster than your opponents an appropriate question to the given answer. A difficulty of the game so is next to the necessary expertise also in a reasonable control of the pulse, just happen to produce the supposed answer as a keyword.
It was invented by Merv Griffin, the creator of Wheel of Fortune, and scored since they air on March 30, 1964 great success in the U.S., which had spread to other countries result. Thus, this quiz show ran for a few years every day in Germany on RTL and later on tm3, moderated by Frank Elstner (1994-1998) and Gerriet Danz ( 1998-2000).
From 1990 to 1993, the show was still called Risky! was moderated by Hans -Jürgen Baumler, to RTL finally decided to buy the full rights, including the design studio of the U.S. production company. In Risky! wore the candidates in the final round even helmets that were a kind of blinkered, the " Blickwinkelkonzentratoren " so-called ( BWKs ) equipped. In Jeopardy! exist for this type of shutter extendable partitions.
Others
In the comedy Groundhog Day groundhog emerges a short sequence from the game. Phil Connors (Bill Murray ) know the questions before the answers are rehearsed.
In the sports comedy White Men 's do not bring the 1992 wins Gloria Clemente (Rosie Perez ), the girlfriend of Billy Hoyle ( Woody Harrelson ) in the quiz.
In The Bucket List Carter Chambers sees the mission and know the questions before the appearance on the show.
As the search for a lyrics for Cora in Music and Lyrics - A song for you stagnate, bridges Alex Fletcher (played by Hugh Grant) the awkward silence with the Jeopardy jingle on the piano.
In an episode of The Simpsons Marge Simpson plays on Jeopardy! with. She loses miserably and even comes into the negative range of points. After the end of the program, the presenter tried to ask them to pay.
In an episode of the Golden Girls Beatrice Arthur aka Dorothy and Betty White aka Rose get in a dream sequence in Jeopardy! on. The quizmaster Alex Trebek plays itself here also appeared in the episode is knowledge of the series The Nanny Fran Drescher power as Jeopardy! Contestant on. Again, Alex Trebek is.
In several episodes of The Big Bang Theory Sheldon Cooper plays the Jeopardy jingle on his flute.
The musician and parodist Weird Al Yankovic parodied in 1984 on his album Weird Al Yankovic in 3 -D the song Jeopardy Greg Kihn Band under the Title I Lost on Jeopardy. The title of the parody spoof doing the chorus line Our love's in jeopardy of the original and includes the complete text of the quiz show. The accompanying music video shows how Yankovic loses on Jeopardy and eventually thrown out of the studio.
In February 2011, the computer program developed by IBM Watson competed against the record champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson won the three-day tournament with $ 77,147 ( up from $ 24,000 to $ 21,600 ).
In the 83rd episode ( American order, A soul -watchers for home use ) by Alf Alf tries to persuade Tanner family to a game of Jeopardy.