Jeopardy

That depends on the date and the Jeopardy archive can find you the answer for most dates. A link has been added for the Jeopardy Archive under the related links just below the answer information.

The related question provides the latest Final Jeopardy for January 2011 programs as there are broadcast and for later dates try changing the month

Jeopardy - 1984 4-45 was released on:

USA: 6 November 1987

The final Category was Sports and Music

The clue was: In July 2010 this Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performed at the Baseball H.O.F. induction ceremonies

The answer was: Who was John Fogerty

Episode 1 of Season 1 aired on Monday, September 10, 1984. This was the premiere episode with Alex Trebek as host. The very first clue/question was:

Category: Animals $100

Answer: These rodents first got to America by stowing away on ships

Question: What are rats.

Final Jeopardy! for Friday, May 9, 2008 (2008 College Championship Quarterfinal Game 5)

Category: Ancient Times

Answer: Plutarch's chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor."

Question: Who is Julius Caesar?

July 14 2012 was a Saturday

Trebek became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1998. He now lives in Studio City, California with his wife, Jean and two children, Matthew (born 1990) and Emily (born 1993).
Mathew born in 1990 is 20 and Emily born in 1993 is 17

The final Jeopardy category was New Sports
new sports
New Sports is the Jeopardy final category for April 12 2010
New Sports is the Jeopardy final category for April 12 2010

The tournament which was an encore Episode from Friday November 13 2009 was won by Rachel Rothenberg a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a total score of $63,800 she won the $75,000 prize see related links

The time and station depend on your local area because Jeopardy is a syndicated TV program and not a network program. The related link will show the station and time for the new episode broadcasts and summer encore episodes for the weekday broadcasts in your local area

Jennings won 74 Jeopardy! games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. Brad Rutter beat Ken Jennings in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions on May 25 2005.

For the Contestants it was Brad Rutter and then Ken Jennings see related links

Sony Pictures Television has made the most money for non contestants.

Rutter will compete alongside Jennings in a special match against IBM's Watson in 2011.

Category: Busy Presidents

Clue: "He had previously been a U.S. senator, minister to France, England & Spain, Secretary of War, Secretary of State & Governor of Virginia"

Answer: Who was James Monroe?

A link to the Jeopardy site that has a record of this game has been added under related links. The Jeopardy Archive contains a record of Jeopardy games played. The records are list by season and date of program.

Literary Brawls was the category, the clue was "At Key West in 1936, Wallace Stevens broke his hand punching this man, who responded by knocking Stevens down" and the answer was Who was Ernest Hemingway

They are not paid right away and must wait until after the program has aired

Of all the Jeopardy contestants playing non tournament final matches only 40 Games have had winners of $40,000 or more and half of those were won by Ken Jennings. If someone were actually lucky enough to have a perfect game and smart enough to answer every question first one wonders why they would be dumb enough to bet everything and risk losing it all not one, twice, or three times, but four times. Plus if the squares were to come up like suggested the odds are less than the chance of winning the powerball lottery. It's not going to happen and none will make the wager if it did. They are not even going to ring in. That they must also be first to answer the question is also part of this impossible theory that supposes that someone smart and intelligent enough would or could go against that intelligence and make those choices even if the unlikely events occurred

In theory, the most that can be won on a single episode of Jeopardy is $566400 by the following calculations:

The most that can be earned in the Jeopardy round is $35600 if the following criteria are met: All squares are answered correctly by the same person and the Daily Double is found on the last square opened which would have to be a $200 square. Therefore, you would have $17800 before the Jeopardy round Daily Double appeared. Wagering everything and answering it correctly would yield $35600 at the end of the first round.

In the Double Jeopardy round, that same contestant must answer all questions correctly before finding the two Daily Doubles which would have to be under two of the $400 squares. Answering all questions correctly prior to the two Daily Doubles would yield an additional $35200. Add that to the $35600 earnings from the first round and you would have $70800 before answering the two Daily Doubles in the Double Jeopardy round.

Wagering everything on the first Daily Double and answering correctly yields $14600. Repeating the process on the second Daily Double yields $283200 going into Final Jeopardy. Wagering everything in Final Jeopardy and answering correctly would yield $566400!