Jeopardy is a quiz show that has a unique answer-and-question format in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of a question. The Board. The Jeopardy game consists of two Rounds.

Courtesy Jeopardy Productions, Inc. According to the official "Jeopardy!" website, the show usually tapes all of its episodes for the week in a single day.

With the exception of the Australian, British, Italian and Japanese versions, all of these began during the current syndicated run in the U.S.

Objective: To be the player or team at the end of Round 3 (Final Jeopardy) with the highest score. Jeopardy! is a three-round trivia game in which questions are worded as answers and answers must be worded as questions. Jeopardy! is best with one host and three players, but two players can suffice.

Time flies when you're having. You got this. Oh what is fun. If you give the correct response you keep the money screen adding it to your winnings.

Time flies when you're having. You got this. Oh what is fun. If you give the correct response you keep the money screen adding it to your winnings.

Jeopardy winners are paid via check by the game show itself. Earnings depend on where competitors place at the end of an episode. 3rd place receives $1,000, 2nd place receives $2,000, and first place receives whatever amount accumulated during the game.

Jeopardy! episodes are filmed in real-time.

At the beginning of the show's 20th season in 2003, the rules were changed to allow contestants to remain on the show as long as they continued to win. After this rule change, and until Jennings' run, the record winning streak was set by Tom Walsh, who won $186,900 in eight games in January 2004.

The original name for Jeopardy!, due to how the format worked, was called "What's the Question?" It was an unexcitable title, and NBC executives confirmed it by saying, "Merv, there are no jeopardies in the game. It needs more jeopardies." Merv didn't completely listen; he kept hearing the word Jeopardy.

The categories which producers pick for contestants to select from also plays a role in Jeopardy appealing to the intellectual everyman in ways other long-running game shows like Wheel of Fortune or The Price Is Right do not. “The variety of topics is one of the other attractive elements of the show.