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So I was listening to this: And I never made the connection before that part of the reason why Jeopardy gives you the answers, and you have to provide the question, is a cheeky twist on the 1950's quiz show scandals where the contestants had been secretly given the answers. So why not just...

Exactly that. The lottery of getting the "daily double". Also the possibility of picking categories you feel you are strong in so that a) you keep control of the board (important for finding the daily double) and b) you can build up enough of a lead that you can potentially make a large wager...

Yeah, that does strike me as pretty bad. For comparison, on the US edition, the first round has clues from $100 - $500 (so about £80 - £400) and the second round has clues from $200 - $1000.

So I haven't seen the UK version, or managed to find a full episode on YouTube, but judging just from this bit of final Jeopardy I found here, along with a couple of other short clips: The problem is that Stephen is slow as f***. You don't need to comment on absolutely everything that's...

https://slate.com/culture/2024/01/jeopardy-uk-british-itv-stephen-fry-host.html

They just recently canned her. Not entirely sure why. I wasn't really following the story. I had heard somebody say that it might have been a result of her support for the recent Hollywood writers strike (I guess quiz question writers are covered by the same union? I dunno) and that pissed off...

It used to be the case that they could only defend for 5 days and then had to retire. But they changed that so you can defend essentially forever. Ken Jennings (now the current host) won 74 games in a row and took about $2.5 million in winnings. But if you include tournaments (they sometimes...

They're trying a UK version of Jeopardy again? All I saw from Googling was a quick a trailer. And yeah, it looked like Stephen Fry was putting far too much banter on every answer. That'll slow the game down plenty. The legendary Alex Trebek would only occasionally interject. It (the US...