Did you Know. . .

•  Jeopardy! has trademark status as “America’s Favorite Quiz Show” from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

•  Jeopardy! has ranked first in Nielsen ratings for the quiz show genre for more than 1,000 weeks, and as the #2 series in syndication for 90 consecutive ratings sweeps periods with nearly 39 million viewers weekly*.

•  Since its 1984 syndication debut, Jeopardy! has been honored with 27 Daytime Emmy Awards, more than any other syndicated game show. Eleven Emmys have been for “Outstanding Game Show/Audience Participation.” Alex Trebek has won four 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, received by Brad Rutter of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 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, winning 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 Morgan Freeman, Adam Sandler, Edward Albee, Christiane Amanpour, 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, 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 eight researchers and 10 writers whose jobs are to create and assemble categories and questions for the series.

•  Auditions for Jeopardy! are open to anyone 18 years of age and older, and take approximately two hours. Those who pass the 50-question video test participate in a mock version of the game and short interview session. There are special tryouts for the Teen, College and Kids Week competitions.

•  Auditions for Jeopardy! are open to anyone 18 years of age and older, and take approximately two hours. Those who pass the 50-question video test participate in a mock version of the game and short interview session. There are special tryouts for the Teen, College and Kids Week competitions.

•  Jeopardy!’s unique answer-and-question format has become a popular motivational tool adapted by a variety of national educators. In 2002, Educational Insights premiered “Classroom Jeopardy!,” 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: Nielsen/NPower/P2+ Unique Viewer Average: 1 Minute Qualifier, Avg Weeks 2/1/07-2/28/07; Sweeps include Nov, Feb, May and July through May ‘07