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Jeopardy! America's Favorite Quiz Show ®

Did you know...

  • "Jeopardy!" has been granted trademark status as "America's Favorite Quiz Show" by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
  • "Jeopardy!" is the #2 series in syndication and averages 9 million daily viewers.*
  • Since its 1984 syndication debut, "Jeopardy!" has been honored with 29 Daytime Emmy Awards, more than any other syndicated game show. Eleven Emmys have been awarded for Outstanding Game Show/Audience Participation. Alex Trebek has won five Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game Show Host.
    The Emmy winning producers of JEOPARDY!

    In 2011 Harry Friedman became the first producer in television history to tie himself for Best Game Show, winning Emmy awards for Wheel of Fortune as well as Jeopardy!

  • The highest cumulative amount won by a single "Jeopardy!" player is $3,255,102 in cash, bestowed on Brad Rutter of Lancaster, Penn. The total amount was a combination of his original appearance in 2002, the "Million Dollar Masters Tournament" in 2002 and the "Ultimate Tournament of Champions" in 2005.
  • Ken Jennings broke the record for the most consecutive games played by winning 74 games in a row during the 2004-2005 season, resulting in winnings of more than $2.5 million.
  • More than 300 game shows have come and gone since "Jeopardy!" premiered in syndication in 1984.
  • "Jeopardy!'s" reach extends beyond the television set. Each month, its Web site (www.jeopardy.com) receives nearly 400,000 visitors.
  • NASA astronauts presented "Jeopardy!" clues from the space shuttle Atlantis, while docking with the International Space Station.
  • Prominent personalities who have presented special clues for "Jeopardy!" have included Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, Morgan Freeman, Adam Sandler, Edward Albee, Glenn Close, Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Oz, Charles Barkley, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Franken, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Torre, Andrew Lloyd Webber and a host of Nobel laureates.
  • Stars who've demonstrated their smarts as contestants on "Jeopardy!" include Jodie Foster, Ashton Kutcher, Nathan Lane, Al Franken, Chris Matthews, Harry Connick, Jr., Neil Patrick Harris, Andy Richter, David Duchovny, Wayne Brady, Star Jones, Jane Seymour, Jason Alexander, Regis Philbin, Scott Hamilton, Mike Piazza, Larry King, Buzz Aldrin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom Clancy, Kirsten Dunst, Naomi Judd, Kelsey Grammer, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Stephen King and Carol Burnett. Since "Celebrity Jeopardy!" debuted in 1992, a total of $7 million has been donated to more than 200 stars' charities.
  • The "Jeopardy!" production staff has six researchers and 10 writers whose jobs are to create and assemble categories and questions for the series.
  • "Jeopardy!" continues its online testing initiative as part of the contestant search process. Since online testing began in 2006, more than a million people have registered to take the test online, and expanded "Jeopardy!'s" contestant pool to include more women, minorities and students. The online test is offered to adults, kids, teens and college students at various times of the year on the show's website at www.jeopardy.com.
  • "Jeopardy!'s" unique answer-and-question format has become a popular motivational tool adapted by a variety of national educators. Educational Insights' "Classroom Jeopardy!" is an affordable electronic version of the famous quiz show, which can be tailored by educators to suit their specific curriculum, while bringing the familiar sights and sounds of "Jeopardy!" (buzzers and all!) directly into the classroom.



    *Source: NSS Galaxy Explorer season to date through 8/23/09.