How much money do Jeopardy contestants get: American game show Jeopardy! was developed by Merv Griffin. The quiz show’s typical question-and-answer format is reversed in this competition.
Contestants are given general knowledge clues in the form of answers rather than questions, and they must choose the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue depicts while wording each response as a question.
On NBC, the first daytime episode ran from March 30, 1964, through January 3, 1975.
From September 1974 to September 1975, a syndicated iteration aired at night, and from October 1978 to March 1979, NBC aired a revival called The All-New Jeopardy! on weekdays. The daily syndicated program that is well-known to modern viewers and is currently produced (by Sony Pictures Television[a]) made its debut on September 10, 1984.
How the game is played
Three contestants compete in three rounds of each Jeopardy! game: the Jeopardy! round, the Double Jeopardy! round, and the Final Jeopardy! round. Each round involves the contestants being given trivia hints that are formatted as questions, to which they must correctly identify the solution by posing a question in response.
The right response to the clue “This ‘Father of Our Country’ didn’t really chop down a cherry tree'” would be “Who is/was George Washington?” for instance, if a competitor chose “Presidents for $200.”
With six categories and five clues each, the Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! rounds each include a big computerized game board. The hints are ranked by dollar values, purportedly according to difficulty, from lowest to highest. Over time, the values of the clues rose, with the Double Jeopardy! round’s values always being double those of the Jeopardy! round.
On the original Jeopardy! series, clue values in the first round ranged from $10 to $50 in the Jeopardy! round and $20 to $100 in Double Jeopardy! On The All-New Jeopardy!, they ranged from $25 to $125 and $50 to $250. The 1984 series’ first round originally ranged from $100 to $500 in Jeopardy! and $200 to $1,000 in Double Jeopardy! These ranges were increased to $200–$1,000 and $400–$2,000, respectively, on November 26, 2001.
How much money do Jeopardy contestants get to keep?
In fact, since 2002, every person who has competed on the show has walked away with some compensation. The winner keeps their score and brings it to the next episode, the second-place contestant walks away with $2,000, and the third-place player gets $1,000.
SOURCE: Ghnewslive.com
