During the Final Jeopardy round of the Apr. 27, 2018 episode of syndicated game show “Jeopardy!“, contestant Carolyn Walsh — a software engineer from Brooklyn, N.Y. — could not successfully defend her one-day reign as champion as she incorrectly responded to the clue in the category of Legendary People, “Leodegrance, king of Cameliard, gave the […]
During the semifinal game of the ‘Jeopardy’ College Championship that originally aired on April 17, there was a category sarcastically entitled “Deep Lyrics” which featured simple lines from some of the chart-topping hit songs of recent years. The contestants had to respond with the name of the artist(s) who performed those songs. For an amusing […]
ABC’s “General Hospital,” which was almost put out to pasture when “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” departed, leads the list of Daytime Emmy Award nominations with a hefty 26. Next is daytime dramas “Days of Our Lives” on NBC and “The Young and the Restless” on CBS, with 25 each. All three again […]
On yesterday’s edition of syndicated game show “Jeopardy!“, it all came down to the Final Jeopardy round that featured a clue about European Islands. All three contestants gave incorrect responses but it was Sarah Norris — a technical writer and manager from Minneapolis, MN — and Laura McLean — a data analyst from Nashville, TN […]
For the week leading up to Super Bowl LII, the game show “Jeopardy!” dedicated one category to the sport on the Feb. 1, 2018 edition entitled “Talkin’ Football.” But the category proved to be a bust for all the night’s participating contestants. Not one of them buzzed in with a guess for each of the […]
Alex Trebek, the host of longrunning syndicated hit game show “Jeopardy“, disclosed in a YouTube video on Jan. 4 he had a “slight medical problem”: a subdural hematoma (blood clots on his brain) due to a fall he had experienced about two months prior. During the holiday weeks, Trebek had surgery done for it and […]
Victory was in sight for contestant Wilbur Farley, a lecturer from Patchogue, N.Y., on the Nov. 21 episode of “Jeopardy“. The Final Jeopardy category was Classic Albums. Farley managed to guess the correct answer but because he had not written the album’s title completely, he wound up losing money by his wager and finished in […]
The two-week “Tournament of Champions” of 2017 of syndicated game show “Jeopardy” concluded with one of the show’s most notable (and, according to host Alex Trebek, “most fun”) championship final rounds on Nov. 16-17. The three finalists were New York City bartender Austin Rogers, Riverside, Calif. software engineer Alan Lin, and Los Angeles music executive […]
In the midst of defending her championship reign, retired teacher from Columbia, Maryland Debb Johnson provided this question to a ‘Star Wars’ clue within the category labeled “You’re Fired From This Movie!” in the June 16, 2017 episode of “Jeopardy!” Perhaps Debb was not a fan of ‘Star Wars’ and had never seen one of […]
