Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American YouTube channel and game show. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, phrasing each response in the form of a question. The show currently has two hosts: Ken Jennings (who hosts the syndicated show), and Mayim Bialik (who hosts primetime episodes). 
==History ==
=== Art Fleming era (1964-1979) ===
Art Fleming was the original host of Jeopardy in its original run.
===Revival and Alex Trebek era (1984-2020) ===
Alex Trebek (whose full name was George Alexander Trebek) was the longest-serving host in Jeopardy history. Trebek was originally from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1998. Trebek was known for his calm demeanor and intelligence, and formerly had a mustache until he shaved it in 2000. Trebek has also made cameos in and has been impersonated in other media, including Saturday Night Live where he was portrayed by Will Ferrell; Trebek made a cameo once in one of the "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketches, and it was later succeeded by "Black Jeopardy", where Kenan Thompson portrays a parody of Trebek. He has also made cameos in Wheel of Fortune, and at the 2020 NHL Draft where he announced the draft pick in the form of a question just like on Jeopardy. Trebek sadly passed away from pancreatic cancer on November 8, 2020, aged 80. He is considered one of the greatest game show hosts of all time.
===Postmortem search for a new host (2020-2021) ===
Jeopardy had several "interim" guest hosts fill the void left by Trebek's death until a permanent replacement was found. The guest hosts were:
* Ken Jennings, a former contestant
* Mike Richards, a producer of the show
* Katie Couric, a journalist
* Dr. Mehmet Oz
* Aaron Rogers, a football player for the Green Bay Packers
* Anderson Cooper, a news anchor for CNN
* Bill Whitaker, a journalist for CBS News
* Buzzy Cohen, another former contestant
* Mayim Bialik, an actress
* Savannah Guthrie, a news anchor for NBC News
* Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the medical correspondant for CNN
* George Stephanopoulos, a news anchor for ABC News
* Robin Roberts, the host of Good Morning America on ABC
* LaVar Burton, the host of Reading Rainbow on PBS
* David Faber, a journalist and former contestant
* Joe Buck, a sports commentator
=== Ken Jennings/Mayim Bialik era (2021-present) ===
In February 2021, Jeopardy announced that the role of host would be shared by two people. Producer Mike Richards and actress Mayim Bialik would succeed Trebek as host after his death; Richard would host the daily syndicated show and Bialik would host primetime episodes. However, Richards stepped down after one week due to controversy surrounding past comments he made on social media, and was replaced by former contestant Ken Jennings.
Ken Jennings holds the record for the most consecutive Jeopardy wins, with 74 before he was defeated by Nancy Zerg. He also holds the record for the highest average correct responses per game in Jeopardy! history (for those contestants with at least 300 correct responses) with 35.9 during his original run (no other contestant has exceeded 30) and 33.1 overall, including tournaments and special events.
Mayim Bialik played the title character of the NBC sitcom Blossom in the 1990s. From 2010 to 2019, she played neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, for which she was nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015 and 2017.
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