Q 01/05

What title, a nod to how Jeopardy! clues work, did Alex Trebek give the memoir he published in July 2020?

A) The Answer Is…

B) In the Form of a Question

C) This Is Jeopardy!

D) Final Answer

Answer · why

A) 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 aft...

Q 02/05

Who hosted the original daytime Jeopardy! when it premiered on NBC in 1964?

A) Bill Cullen

B) Art Fleming

C) Gene Rayburn

D) Alex Trebek

Answer · why

B) 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 wa...

Q 03/05

Whose Guinness record for hosting the most episodes of one game show did Alex Trebek break in 2014?

A) Bob Barker

B) Dick Clark

C) Bill Cullen

D) Wink Martindale

Answer · why

A) 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 te...

Q 04/05

In 2011, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer answered a Final Jeopardy! clue in the category US Cities with which Canadian city?

A) Toronto

B) Vancouver

C) Montreal

D) Winnipeg

Answer · why

A) 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 Toront...

Q 05/05

What was Merv Griffin's working title for Jeopardy! before NBC's Ed Vane said the game lacked 'jeopardies'?

A) What's the Question?

B) Answer Me This

C) The Answer Game

D) The Big Board

Answer · why

A) 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 th...