Jeopardy! Jeopardy! George Alexander Trebek (birth name Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek, born July 22, 1940), is a Canadian-born American television personality, best known as the host of the game show Jeopardy! for the past 22 years. He has hosted numerous game/quiz shows and has appeared in over 70 movies and television series, usually as himself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alex Trebek"
Art Fleming was born Arthur Fleming Fazzin in New York City in 1925. His parents, William and Marie Fazzin, had emigrated to the United States from Austria. They were a popular dance team in Europe and had brought their show to the U.S. (where the Fazzins experienced only limited success). ...more on Wikipedia about "Art Fleming"
Brad Rutter (born 1977 or 1978) is a champion contestant on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!. As of the end of 2005, he has won more money on game shows than any other person in history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brad Rutter"
Celebrity Jeopardy! is one of the most popular recurring sketches on Saturday Night Live that parodies the television game show ( Jeopardy!) of the same name, which is known to have easier-than-normal answers asked when celebrities compete. 13 sketches have been aired to date, numbering 2 a season from 1996-2002, and 1 in 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live)"
David Madden (born June 13, 1981) is a nineteen-time champion on the television game show Jeopardy!, between July 5, 2005, and September 19, 2005, second only to Ken Jennings in most consecutive appearances. Like Jennings, Madden consistently achieved runaway games (where one person's score is more than twice that of any other player, going into the Final Jeopardy! round). Originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey, he is a graduate of Princeton University, and during his Jeopardy! appearances, he lived in Berlin, Germany as a graduate student pursuing his master's degree in International relations. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Madden"
Don Pardo (Dominick George Pardo, born February 22, 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is a legendary radio and television announcer. Since the 1950s, Pardo has been an in-house announcer for the NBC television network. He and Bob Hope are the only two people to have been offered lifetime contracts by the network. His best known announcing work is for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on NBC and the television series Saturday Night Live; he has been with the show since it premiered in 1975, except for one season (1981-2). ...more on Wikipedia about "Don Pardo"
Eddie Timanus is a Jeopardy! champion and USA Today sportswriter who graduated from Wake Forest University. He met his wife through a Yahoo! Groups discussion group on game shows; the couple now has a son. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eddie Timanus" Come again to www.shortopedia.com shortopedia
Frank Spangenberg (born July 26, 1957) is an American police officer who garnered a modicum of fame in 1990 when he set the five-day record on the game show Jeopardy! ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Spangenberg"
Jeopardy! is a popular international television game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also created Wheel of Fortune. The show originated in the United States, where it first ran on NBC from 1964 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979. Its most successful incarnation is the current Alex Trebek-hosted syndicated version, which has aired continuously since September 1984. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeopardy!"
Jeopardy!, the American television game show, has been portrayed and parodied in many works of fiction over the years, and has made many lasting marks on society. From television shows and movies, to theme park attractions and literature, the series has had an indelible impact on popular culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeopardy! in culture"
The Ultimate Tournament of Champions was a fifteen-week single-elimination tournament on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! that began airing on February 9 and concluded on May 25, 2005. The tournament involved 145 contestants consisting of winners of special tournaments and former five-time champions. After five rounds of competition, Brad Rutter defeated Jerome Vered and Ken Jennings in a three-game final for a grand prize of US $2,000,000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions"
Studio City, California writer Jerome Vered (circa 1958) entered the annals of Jeopardy! history with his multiple record-breaking five-day run in 1992, during which he shattered the one-day record for dollar winnings with $34,000 in one episode, which would not be broken, adjusted for a 2001 rule change (it would have been $68,000 after the rule change), until Ken Jennings broke the record in 2004 with a $75,000 win, and also logged the five-day take-home record. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jerome Vered"
Johnny Gilbert (born c. 1924, Newport News, Va.) is a prolific American television game show announcer, best known for his 20-year association with TV's Jeopardy!. His other credits include Chain Reaction, Go, Supermarket Sweep, Card Sharks, Family Feud, The $25,000 Pyramid, and Love Connection. Although he is widely credited as the only voice actor to have announced on both the Bill Cullen and Bob Barker versions of The Price Is Right, in reality he was not among the group of announcers requested to sub the CBS daytime format following the death of legendary Johnny Olson in 1985. A former nightclub singer and entertainer, he also emceed a number of game shows in the 1950s and 1960s eg Music Bingo, Fast Draw, and Beat The Odds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johnny Gilbert"
Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!, as well as other records. Jennings won 74 games before he was defeated by Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total winnings on Jeopardy! are $3,022,700 ($2,522,700 during his original run, and $500,000 in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions). Jennings held the record for most winnings on any game show ever played until the end of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions on May 25, 2005, when he was displaced by Brad Rutter, to whom Jennings finished second in that tournament. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ken Jennings"
The theoretical maximum win for a single game of Jeopardy! is US$566,400, but this requires choosing all of the Daily Doubles last and that they're all placed behind the lowest valued clues, for which the odds are 3,288,600 to 1 (assuming they are randomly placed). Depending on placement and order of the Daily Doubles, a so-called "perfect game" (every question correct, always maximum wager when called to do so) can range from $208,000 to $566,400, with a mean of $374,400. [Since the values were doubled, no Daily Double has appeared in the top row ($200/$400), though they on occasion appear in the second row ($400/$800).] ...more on Wikipedia about "Ken Jennings game summaries"
Mervyn "Merv" Edward Griffin, Jr. (born on July 6, 1925 in San Mateo, California) is an American talk show host, entertainer, and television personality and executive. He began his career as a singer and even appeared in movies and on Broadway; he later became host of his own TV show, The Merv Griffin Show, and an entertainment business magnate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Merv Griffin"
Merv Griffin Productions (later Merv Griffin Enterprises now Merv Griffin Entertainment) is a production outfit owned by television mogul Merv Griffin that was founded in 1964. Griffin renamed his company to Merv Griffin Enterprises in 1984. He reported plagued financial difficulties in 1986 and sold his company to The Coca-Cola Company (which owned Columbia Pictures at the time) for $250 million. The company later merged into Columbia Pictures Entertainment in December 1987, and was sold to Sony Corporation along with CPE's other units on November 7, 1989. On January 3, 1994, Griffin renamed Merv Griffin Enterprises back to Merv Griffin Productions and sold the production rights of Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, including the other game shows to Columbia TriStar Television, although Griffin himself continues to hold the copyright on these shows. Griffin subsequently started another company, Merv Griffin Entertainment in 1999, to create new shows as well as revivals of recent franchises (such as Dance Fever, revived in 2003 for the ABC Family channel). ...more on Wikipedia about "Merv Griffin Productions"
Sofia Lidskog (born March 31, 1979) is a Swedish television personality. She was a member of the "Clue Crew" on the quiz show Jeopardy! from 2001 to 2004. (In addition, she has taped clues for the Swedish version of the show, in her family's own language.) In 2004, she became an anchor at Channel One News, the TV network for high schools. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to Canada before age 2. She grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and was chosen as the Santa Lucia in the Boston area's Santa Lucia festival. She graduated cum laude from Harvard in 2001 with a degree in government (political science) and worked briefly in Washington, D.C. for Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.). Besides English and Swedish, she is fluent in French and Spanish. She has also competed in 10 different sports, including lacrosse and jiu-jitsu. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sofia Lidskog"
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