Did you know...

• Jeopardy! claims trademark status as “America’s Favorite Quiz Show” from 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 28 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! celebrate their Outstanding Game Show win at the 2005 Daytime Emmy Awards in New York. Left to right: Rocky Schmidt, Lisa Finneran, Harry Friedman and Gary Johnson.

• 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, Drew Barrymore, Edward Albee, Christiane Amanpour, Emeril Lagasse, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Oz, Charles Barkley, Bill Clinton, Al Franken, Rudy Guiliani, John McCain, Joel Schumacher, Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Torre, Andrew Lloyd Webber and a host of noble laureates.
• Stars who've demonstrated their smarts as contestants on Jeopardy! include Jodie Foster, Ashton Kutcher, Ari Fleischer, Nathan Lane, Al Franken, Chris Matthews, Harry Connick, Jr., Rosie O'Donnell, Andy Richter, David Duchovny, Wayne Brady, Star Jones, Jane Seymour, Jason Alexander, Regis Philbin, Scott Hamilton, Mike Piazza, Mark McEwen, Larry King, Buzz Aldrin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom Clancy, Kirsten Dunst, Wolf Blitzer, Naomi Judd, Rebecca Lobo, Kelsey Grammer, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Stephen King and Carol Burnett. Their efforts have paid off in millions of dollars donated to their favorite charities nationwide.
• 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 half a million people have taken the test online, and helped expand 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.