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*** Art Fleming and the Jeopardy! gameboard make a cameo in ''Airplane II: The Sequel''.
* [[Game Show Winnings Cap]]: Until 2003, contestants could only stay on for five days and win up to $75,000 (later $100,000), with the balance donated to a charity of the contestant's choice. Now, a contestant can stay on so long as s/he keeps winning, and keep ''all'' winnings. Shortly after the cap was removed, Ken Jennings ran for 75 games (74 wins and then his defeat by Nancy Zerg).
** ''Jeopardy!'' is far more lenient than ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' when it comes to making a repeat appearance (as in, they'll actually '''let you play again''') — if you have already appeared on a version hosted by Alex Trebek, you're ineligible (except for tournaments, of course). Otherwise, you're good to go! No doubt this will change in 2021.{{verify}}
* [[Golden Snitch]]: Averted and inverted; more often than not, Double Jeopardy ends in a "lock" situation; second place has less than half of first place's score.
* [[Home Game]]: Several board games, video game versions as early as the NES (an Atari 2600 version was planned shortly before [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983|the market crashed]]), and several PC versions as well. [[THQ]] released Wii versions of ''Jeopardy!'' and ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' in 2010. There's also a school version that uses a dedicated console and allows custom answers and images to be used.
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* Personnel:
** [[The Announcer]]: Noted game show announcer Don Pardo announced the first two Fleming versions, with John Harlan behind the mic on the 1978-79 revival. Jay Stewart of ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'' fame announced the 1983 pilot, and Johnny Gilbert both the second pilot and every Trebek episode.<ref>On the very rare instance that Johnny misses a taping, he's dubbed in post.</ref> Loretta Fox announced the first two seasons of ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!'', with Stew Herrera taking over for the third.
** [[Game Show Host]]: Art Fleming's biggest role, without a doubt, was this. This
** [[Lovely Assistant]]: Sort of. The show makes frequent use of the Clue Crew, three assistants (down from five) who provide prerecorded visuals related to the clue.
** [[Studio Audience]]
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** In the [http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3599 March 16, 2011] game, Tom Kunzen, the returning champion, absolutely ''owned'' his opponents who struggled to even remain on the plus side: the scores at the end of DJ! were $29,200 for Tom and -$3,600 and -$1,400 for his opponents respectively, leading to only the second single-player Final Jeopardy! in the show's history.
** Harking back to the original NBC version, one of the era's most biggest winners was Burns Cameron, who won a record $11,000 during his five-day romp. In one game, he played against two contestants who were said to be inebriated during their show; they were so drunk they struggled to even press the lock-out buzzer (leading Cameron to at times intentionally delay ringing in to give his opponents a chance to answer). Needless to say, he was the only one around for "Final Jeopardy!"
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Who
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The name of a category on November 3, 2010, where each correct response contained or completed a phrase with the same word twice.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Trebek's second episode. All three players ended Final Jeopardy! with scores of $0 after giving the same incorrect day the 20th Century began — all three responded with "January 1, 1900"... but the correct response was January 1, 190''1''.
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** According to Alex, only three changes were made to accommodate him: a card with the categories printed in Braille (handed to him at the start of each round), a tone would denote when the contestants could buzz in (usually, the contestants would see a light around the board when Alex was finished speaking and they could buzz in without a small time penalty) and a Braille keyboard to type in his wagers and responses in Final Jeopardy!.
* [[High Definition]]: ''Jeopardy!'' and partner ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' were the first two game shows to switch to hi-def, both doing so in 2007.
* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Averted. Instead of singing, Alex (or occasionally [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MsRw2x-NCg Johnny Gilbert])
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Variations on "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|The 'L' You Say]]" to indicate that correct responses will begin with L, are just one example of these.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: If a contestant mentions alcohol in any way during their interviews, Alex
** Subverted in a notorious clip that shows Trebek swearing like a sailor and supposedly drinking while trying to shoot a "Phone Jeopardy!" promo. Although the [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]] are real, Trebek was actually alternating between Diet Coke and a glass of water.
* [[Irony]]: An Indian contestant once missed a question about New Delhi. The contestant hung his head in shame and Alex called him out on it.
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** Celebrity Jeopardy (played for charity) is much more forgiving of the "must be in the form of a question" rule.
** Money equal to their score used to be awarded to all contestants, but "winner-take-all" promotes more risk taking for a more exciting show, and prevents contestants from ending participation if they've reached some needed goal amount.
* [[Off the Rails]]: A contestant who obviously doesn't know the right Final Jeopardy! sometimes draws a picture, makes [[Shout-Out
** At least twice during Ken's run, a contestant wrote some variation on "What is Whatever Ken Wrote Down?", and variations on "What is I Have No Freaking Clue?" aren't rare, either.
** At least once, a contestant has proposed to his girlfriend in the audience via Final Jeopardy!.
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** In a similar vein, two of the finalists in the 2008 Teen Tournament were named Rachel. One of the two went by "Steve".
* [[Opening Narration]]:
{{quote|'''Johnny Gilbert''': "[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|This... is... ''Jeopardy!'']] Introducing today's contestants: ''[lists off the two challengers and their occupations and city]'', AND our returning champion, ''[gives occupation, city, and name]'', whose [X] day ''cash'' winnings total [amount] dollars. And now, here is the host of ''Jeopardy!'', Alex Trebek!"}}
** In the 2000s, the original "now entering the studio are today's contestants" is replaced with one of five slightly different intros, depending on the day. This coincided with the contestants no longer actually entering the studio, not coincidentally around the time Eddie Timanus, a blind man, was on the show.
* [[Person as Verb]]: In the ''Cheers'' episode "What Is... Cliff Clavin?", postman Cliff Clavin appears on the show and racks up an insurmountable lead, but loses after he gets Final Jeopardy! wrong and wagers everything. Making such a wager is often called "pulling a Clavin".
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** The College Tournament Quarterfinal game on [http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3305 February 4, 2010], featured the category "Internet Favorites" with clues about Keyboard Cat, [[The Lonely Island|"I'm On A Boat"]], and [[Charlie the Unicorn]].
** '''[[Image Boards|4chan]]''' was part of a clue on February 23, 2010. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEJqHplFo8 No, seriously.]
** There was also an episode where all the categories were named after [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] songs.
** [[Fallout: New Vegas]] was the subject of a clue on February 24, 2011.
** [[Failblog]] was the subject of a clue on March 14, 2011. Ironically, nobody got it right... [[Droste Image|and a video of the clue appeared on Failblog the very next day.]]
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** On April 1, 2010, the reigning champion mentioned during his interview, that he considered ''[[Pitfall (TV series)|Pitfall]]'' (another Trebek-hosted game) "the best thing ever" when he was young. Alex couldn't disagree more, pointing out that it was the only time he was ever "stiffed" for his salary.
** ''[[The Simpsons]]'': At the end of his match against IBM's Watson, Ken Jennings paraphrased Kent Brockman by writing under his Final Jeopardy question "I for one welcome our new Computer Overlords".
** And continuing in that same vein, champion Jason Keller copied Watson's "What is [[Toronto]]?" on his ninth game.
** The "[[X Meets Y|Wheel of Jeopardy!]]" category [[Don't Explain the Joke|(Wheel of Fortune comes on either immediately before or immediately after Jeopardy in American channels).]] They show a partially-solved ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' puzzle and give a clue about the answer on the board.
** Some of the categories on the Celebrity Jeopardy! segments of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' have later been used as actual categories on the show, such as [http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1071 "Japan-US Relations" on the June 27, 2006 episode] or [http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1872 "I'm Not Wearing Any Pants" on the May 25, 2007 episode].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIzKAEzmMZU This contestant] is obviously a ''Family Guy'' fan.
** ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': As [[Jane Curtin]] builds up a big lead during a Celebrity Jeopardy episode in 1998, [[Naomi Judd]] refers to an old SNL [[Catch Phrase]] of [[Dan Aykroyd]] [[Phrase Catcher|towards Jane]]...
{{quote|'''Naomi Judd''': Well, Jane, I guess you're
** Several references have been made to the ''[[Cheers]]'' crossover episode.
* [[The Show Must Go On]]: In one episode, a contestant fainted during Final Jeopardy!. After a stop-down, Alex roused the contestant and asked him to write down his Final Jeopardy! response. Apparently, the contestant was on a crash diet and had not eaten in almost two days.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Trebek
* [[Spin-Off]]: The 1970s syndicated version, ''Super Jeopardy!'', ''Jep!'' and ''Rock & Roll Jeopardy!''.
* [[Status Quo Game Show]]: The second Trebek episode ended in a three-way tie at $0 due to all three players wagering all of their winnings on Final Jeopardy! and getting it wrong.
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* [[Trans-Atlantic Equivalent]]: Among other countries, the UK had a version for a while. It never really caught on, leading to an odd inversion of [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]] — Britons are ''aware'' of ''Jeopardy!'', but are nonplussed by how mainstream its influence is on American culture and stock phrases. The same is true of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]''.
* [[Truck Driver's Gear Change]]: The "Think!" music used in Final Jeopardy! has always gone up a minor third in the second verse. Also, every variation of the current version's theme tune has used several key changes; the 1984 version was all over the place in particular.
* [[Unperson]]: Not only do players who finish Double Jeopardy! with no money not stick around for Final Jeopardy!, they don't even get to participate in the credits sequence of the players chatting with
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Before and After is a pretty tricky category; There are two clues and you need to come up with an answer that bridges them together. Near the end of a particularly long tournament, there was a category "Before, '''During''', and After", where every correct response involved three answers with two bridges.
* [[Urban Legend]]: The 1978-79 version was supposedly canned because Merv, returning from a vacation in Europe, saw the format changes and demanded that NBC cancel the show '''immediately''' (and only hastened its demise, as NBC was already planning to cancel it). The legend falls apart because the first pilot for this version, with a slightly different format, was taped on March 6, 1977...followed by ''another'' in mid-1978.
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