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This comes from the Wikipedia site on Jeopardy:
According to Merv Griffin, the idea for Jeopardy! began when he and his wife Julann were on a plane trip from Duluth, Minnesota to New York:
I was mulling over game show ideas, when she noted that there had not been a successful "question and answer" game on the air since the quiz show scandals. Why not do a switch, and give the answers to the contestant and let them come up with the question? She fired a couple of answers to me: "5,280" - and the question of course was "How many feet in a mile?". Another was "79 Wistful Vista"; that was Fibber and Mollie McGee's address. I loved the idea, went straight to NBC with the idea, and they bought it without even looking at a pilot show.
Link to the site has been added to the related links below the answer credits as well as a link for Merv Griffin
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe show has a decades-long broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in 1964. It first ran in the daytime on NBC from March 30, 1964 until January 3, 1975; concurrently ran in a weekly syndicated version from September 9, 1974 to September 5, 1975; and subsequently ran in a revival from October 2, 1978 to March 2, 1979. All of these versions were hosted by Art Fleming.
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Who was the original host of the original Jeopardy?
The original version of the show from March 30 1964 was hosted by Art Fleming.
Who was the original creator of Jeopardy quiz show?
Merv Griffin
Who is the creator of the original Jeopardy quiz show?
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What was the Final Jeopardy category and answer August 17 2012?
Jeopardy season ended on August 3 2012 The answer is listed by original episode date
What was the final question on Jeopardy August 16 2012?
Jeopardy season ended on August 3 2012 The answer is listed by original episode date
What was final jeopardy for February 19 2011?
The Saturday Jeopardy programs are encore episodes depending on local areas for original episode date
What words end in ardy?
Tardy,Jeopardy,Shardy
Who won jeopardy yesterday August 8 2012?
Jeopardy season ended on August 3 2012 The information is listed by original episode date
Has jeopardy ever ended with one contestant?
In the original Art Fleming Version of Jeopardy their was at least one time when none of the contestants fiinshed Double Jeopardy with more than $0 and so the did not even have a final Jeopardy Clue that day. On March 16th, 2011 only one contestant finished Double Jeopardy with a positive amount and went on to play Final Jeopardy alone.
How do you watch for free the first season of jeopardy?
I know of no way to watch the original episodes of Jeopardy and don't believe it is possible as according to Wikipedia only a small number of the 2,753 episodes from the original NBC Daytime version survive, mostly as black-and-white kinescopes of the original color videotapes. A link to the Jeopardy Wikipedia has been added to the related links and a section deals with the Alex Trebek episodes from 1984 to the present.
What was the final Jeopardy on August 17 2009?
Summer schedule need original air date to answer
Can you get a list of jeopardy champions in 1974?
That would be very difficult to do. The original version of Jeopardy has very few episodes existing due to tape practices of the time, where tapes were wiped in order to be re-used, so there isn't a list of Jeopardy champions from that year.
