Jeopardy Wiki | Fandom Brad Rutter. [58], On November 9, 2020, the first episode after Trebek's death, executive producer Mike Richards paid tribute to Trebek, after a few seconds of silence where the lights on the Jeopardy! The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Season 37 Premieres with All-New Episodes Monday, September 14", "Welcome back to the Alex Trebek Stage! (including his Tournament of Champions and The Greatest of All Time prizes), he is #3 on the list of all-time American game show winnings. [239] The website features videos, photographs, and other information related to each week's contestants, as well as mini-sites promoting remote tapings and special tournaments. [213], Four contestants on the Trebek version share the record for winning a game with the lowest amount possible, at $1. had earned him royalties of over $70million throughout his lifetime. He confessed that he only watched the Trebek version infrequentlyonly for a handful of questionsand criticized this iteration mainly for its Hollywood setting. music package was rearranged again, this time by Chris Bell Music & Sound Design. [48] He originally intended requiring grammatically correct phrasing (e.g., only accepting "Who is" for a person), but after finding that grammatical correction slowed the game down, he decided to accept any correct response that was in question form. As the players are not isolated during the semifinals the way they are during the quarterfinals, show management have since changed the rules in tournament semifinals. Since November 2014,[31] ties for first place following Final Jeopardy! 2,000 (from February 21, 1972, in color), and a June 1975 episode of the weekly syndicated edition exist at the Paley Center for Media. Matt Amodio won 38 games earlier this season, and James Holzhauer won 32 in 2019. [46][47], Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not easily be shown on camera, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories.