User:Abdulsidahmed/sandbox

This page is about the British game show. For the original American version, see Jeopardy!

{{Infobox television | show_name = Jeopardy! | format = Quiz, general knowledge | genre = Game show | created by = Mark Godson | presenter = Derek Hobson (1983-4)
Chris Donat (1990) Steve Jones (1991-3) Paul Ross (1995-6) | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_series = | num_episodes = | runtime = 30 minutes (inc. adverts) | company = Thames Television
TVS
Meridian
Action Time
| channel = Channel 4
[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]
]Sky1 | picture_format = 4:3 | first_aired = 12 January 1983 (1983-01-12) | last_aired = 12 April 1996 (1996-04-12) }}

Jeopardy! is a British game show created by Mark Godson which has been presented by Derek Hobson, Chris Donat, Steve Jones and Paul Ross. The show features a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions. The original show on Channel 4 on 12 January 1983 to 6 July 1984, then ITV on 3 September 1990 to 9 April 1993 and Sky 1 on 21 August 1995 to 1996.

"The quiz where you get the answers first." "What is Hitman?"

Ah, Jeopardy. It means risk, you know. This quiz's main attraction is that you get the answers and the correct answer is actually a question, such as: "What is Jeopardy?"

<ref name>

Gameplay

The Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! rounds each feature six categories, each of which contains five clues, which are ostensibly valued by difficulty. Three people played three rounds of quizzes to determine the champion. Each round would have six categories, each with five questions (answers) of varying difficulty and points value. Whoever got the last question (answer) right gets to choose next and they will continue until all the answers (questions - do you see how tedious this is yet?) have been used up. Get one right - win the points! Get one wrong - lose the points! Excellent!

After the break, "Yes!" Double Jeopardy rounds! And it's double points for round two. Yay. And it's called Double Jeopardy which will please fans of mediocre action thrillers. Unlike the rich US broadcasters, their poor impoverished UK colleagues couldn't afford any decent amounts of cash so points were used instead, which took away most of the "my word, they've just lost $2,000 on a wrong answer" shock that the US show admittedly has. In the Steve Jones version, daily winners got £500, or £3000 for five wins in a row with the biggest winners coming back to play Master Jeopardy for a holiday to Mauritius.

Excitingly, people don't know each other's scores and a few of the questions are (fanfare) Daily Doubles which were both daily and double (possibly) which players could bet as many points as they liked on a single question which would include sound and/or video and a question (answer) based on that clip. Major highlight that.

Final Jeopardy!

Most of the points by the end of the game. Finally Final Jeopardy where people bet all, some, none or less of their winnings on one final question (answer) in order to win. Of course this involed a bit of intrigue as they didn't know each others scores and how much they bet wasn't revealed until after the questions had been written down. Shockingly, the person with the most points won a small amount of cash and the right to play next time.

Still, one nice talking point was the way the lights on the contestants' buzzers would gradually turn off indicating how much time they had to give a response. That's about as exciting as it got, really.

Transmissions

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	??	??	??
2	??	??	??
3	??	??	??
4	??	??	??

External links

• Jeopardy! at UKGameshows.com

Category:Channel 4 original programming Category:ITV (TV network) original programming Category:Sky UK original programming Category:British game shows Category:1980s British television series Category:1990s British television series Category:1983 British television series debuts Category:1996 British television series endings Category:United Kingdom television show stubs