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99 free Jeopardy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
68 free Jeopardy trivia questions with answers. Think you're a Jeopardy expert? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive 99-question trivia quiz covering the legendary game show's history, iconic contestants, and unforgettable moments. From Alex Trebek to Ken Jennings, discover how well you really know America's favorite quiz show.
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Q 01What title, a nod to how Jeopardy! clues work, did Alex Trebek give the memoir he published in July 2020?
The Answer Is…
The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life appeared while Trebek was still hosting; he taped his last show that October and died less than four months after the book came out.
Q 02Who hosted the original daytime Jeopardy! when it premiered on NBC in 1964?
Art Fleming
Art Fleming hosted every version from 1964 to 1979, then turned critic: he called the Trebek revival 'much too easy' and too Hollywood, and said he watched only a handful of clues.
Q 03Whose Guinness record for hosting the most episodes of one game show did Alex Trebek break in 2014?
Bob Barker
Bob Barker held the mark until June 2014, when Trebek hosted his 6,829th Jeopardy!; Trebek then kept going for six more years, taping his last show ten days before he died.
Q 04In 2011, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer answered a Final Jeopardy! clue in the category US Cities with which Canadian city?
Toronto
Toronto, followed by five question marks to flag its doubt, was the machine's guess when the right response was Chicago; an IBM engineer wore a Toronto Blue Jays jacket to the next taping.
Q 05What was Merv Griffin's working title for Jeopardy! before NBC's Ed Vane said the game lacked 'jeopardies'?
What's the Question?
What's the Question? was the title Griffin pitched; Vane's complaint that the game lacked 'jeopardies' handed him a better one, and the word became the show's name.
Q 06How many consecutive games did Ken Jennings win in his record-breaking 2004 Jeopardy! run?
74
74 straight wins, from June to November 2004, brought Ken Jennings more than $2.5 million; the run was possible only because the show had scrapped its cap on returning champions the year before.
Q 07The 'Daily Double' clue takes its name from a wagering term borrowed from which activity?
Horse racing
Horse racing: at the track a daily double is one bet on the winners of two races, and tracks usually attach it to the day's first two to lure spectators through the gates early.
Q 08After the 2020 Greatest of All Time tournament, which champion still led Ken Jennings in total Jeopardy! winnings?
Brad Rutter
Brad Rutter's total stood near $4.9 million, almost all of it from special events: he won the Million Dollar Masters, a 2005 all-time champions' contest and the Battle of the Decades.
Q 09What subject did Alex Trebek study at the University of Ottawa before starting his broadcasting career at the CBC?
Philosophy
Philosophy was his degree, earned in 1961; he was aiming at a career in broadcast news and paid his tuition by working part-time at CBC Radio.
Q 10In which 1992 film does Rosie Perez's character fulfil her dream of competing on Jeopardy!?
White Men Can't Jump
White Men Can't Jump sends Gloria Clemente onto the show, where she stumbles on the sports clues, of all things, then roars back with her pet category, 'Foods That Begin With the Letter Q'.
Q 11In 1991 Alex Trebek became the first person to host three American game shows at once by adding which panel show?
To Tell the Truth
To Tell the Truth was midway through its season when Trebek took over, hosting it from February until the series ended that May, while still fronting Jeopardy! and a second NBC game.
Q 12After 1987 Alex Trebek stopped producing Jeopardy! and took on a second hosting job at which NBC game show?
Classic Concentration
Classic Concentration, a rebus-puzzle memory game, kept Trebek on NBC until 1991; he passed Jeopardy!'s producing duties to George Vosburgh, who had produced the 1978 revival.
Q 13In 2011, which IBM computer beat two of Jeopardy!'s most successful champions in a televised exhibition match?
Q 21Which 1985 Jeopardy! champion gave his name to the tactic of hopping between categories to rattle opponents?
Chuck Forrest
Chuck Forrest's 'Forrest Bounce' keeps opponents guessing where the next clue will come from; he himself called it the 'Rubin Bounce', after the law-school friend who suggested it.
Q 22Which CBC high-school quiz show did Alex Trebek host in the late 1960s?
Reach for the Top
Reach for the Top, which pitted teams of high-school students against each other, was Trebek's first quiz show; he gave it up in 1973, the year American television came calling.
Q 23Which sitcom actress shared Jeopardy! hosting duties with Ken Jennings from 2021 until December 2023?
Mayim Bialik
Watson
Watson was IBM's answer to a question it had been asking since its chess machine beat Garry Kasparov in 1997: what next? Named after the firm's first chief executive, it won the $1 million top prize.
Q 14Which fellow Canadian entertainer created the 1973 NBC game show that first brought Alex Trebek to American television?
Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke created and produced the show and lured Trebek south to host it; it was gone within a year, but it launched Trebek's American career.
Q 15Who was the announcer of the syndicated Jeopardy! when it debuted in 1984?
Johnny Gilbert
Johnny Gilbert was hired on Alex Trebek's recommendation and never left: in 2017 Guinness recognised him for the longest career as a game show announcer on a single show.
Q 16Which contestant set the Jeopardy! single-game winnings record of $131,127 in April 2019?
James Holzhauer
James Holzhauer first broke Roger Craig's $77,000 record with $110,914 on April 9, 2019, then topped himself eight days later by staking $60,013 on Final Jeopardy!.
Q 17How many seconds do contestants have to write their response for the 'Final Jeopardy!' round?
30 seconds
30 seconds is all they get to write a response once the clue is read; the wager is another matter, made during the commercial break before anyone has seen the clue.
Q 18Merv Griffin's wife Julann is credited with suggesting which Jeopardy! concept?
Responding in the form of a question
Julann Griffin suggested responding in the form of a question, testing Merv on a flight with '5,280', to which he replied 'How many feet in a mile?'
Q 19Who was named Jeopardy!'s permanent host in August 2021, only to step down after taping one week of shows?
Mike Richards
Mike Richards, the show's own executive producer, lasted nine days: The Ringer dug up offensive remarks from his old podcast, he quit as host, and within two weeks he was fired as producer too.
Q 20After the November 2001 increase, what was the top clue value in the Jeopardy! round?
$1,000
$1,000 has topped the first-round board since November 26, 2001, when every clue value doubled overnight; the second round, always worth twice as much, peaks at double that.
Mayim Bialik, of The Big Bang Theory, stepped back during the 2023 Hollywood strikes in support of the writers; Jennings covered her episodes, and that December the show made him its sole host.
Q 24A Jeopardy! contestant who wagers their entire score on a Daily Double is said to be making which kind of Daily Double?
True
True: a 'true Daily Double' puts the whole score at risk. A player with little or nothing is not stuck, though, and may still bet up to the highest clue value on the board.
Q 25Which company distributed the daily syndicated Jeopardy! when it launched in 1984?
King World
King World, a family firm that began by syndicating the old Little Rascals comedy shorts, distributed the show from its 1984 launch until 2007, when it was absorbed into CBS's distribution arm.
Q 26In 1986 Merv Griffin sold his company, Jeopardy! included, for $250 million to which soft-drink giant?
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola then owned Columbia Pictures, which made the purchase; Griffin kept a share of the profits and put his windfall into hotels, starting with the Beverly Hilton.
Q 27IBM gave half of its computer's $1 million Jeopardy! prize in 2011 to which humanitarian charity?
World Vision International
World Vision International shared the $1 million with World Community Grid, an IBM-backed project that harnesses volunteers' idle computers for research; the two human players gave away half their prizes too.
Q 28Why did Merv Griffin split his first 100-clue Jeopardy! board into two rounds?
Too big for TV
Too big for TV: a grid of ten categories by ten clues could not easily be shown on camera, so Griffin cut the game into two rounds of thirty clues each.
Q 29What is the smallest wager a Jeopardy! contestant may make on a Daily Double?
$5
$5 is the floor, a relic of 1964: it was half the smallest clue value on the original show, and it has stayed put while the clues have grown to many times their old worth.
Q 30What must a contestant do to qualify for Final Jeopardy!?
Possess a score greater than zero dollars
Possess a score greater than zero dollars or you are out before the final clue. Celebrity games bend the rule: CNN's Wolf Blitzer ended one $4,600 in the red and was handed a fresh stake so he could play on.