Jeopardy! (franchise)

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Jeopardy! originated as an American television series on March 30, 1964. In its original daytime format, it ran until 1975 on NBC, then was revived by the same network for a 21-week run (with a slightly different format) from 1978 to 1979. Art Fleming hosted the program during its entire run on NBC. The current version of Jeopardy! debuted in first-run syndication in September 1984 with Alex Trebek as the second host. It followed the same basic format as the NBC version, with larger prize money and a futuristic set.

With the exception of a 39-episode block of weekly shows placed into syndication near the end of the first NBC run in 1974 and 1975, Jeopardy! has aired its first-run episodes five days a week throughout its existence.

Various international versions have been produced for countries other than the United States. With the exception of the Australian, British, Italian, and Japanese versions, all of these began during the current syndicated run in the U.S.

In 1990, host Alex Trebek co-authored The Jeopardy! Book along with Peter Barsocchini, which included boards from some of their past tournament games as well as boards specializing in some of the show's various categories. Also included are behind-the-scenes photos of how the show is produced, including writing the game material. (Trebek also voiced the audiobook, which featured the "behind the scenes" material on tape one, and audio versions of select games from the book on tape two.) Its sequel The Jeopardy! Challenge, also co-authored by Trebek, along with Griffin, included boards from their past tournament games, and was published in 1992.

In 2000, the show's writers released 4 volumes of quiz books titled Jeopardy!: What is Quiz Book 1–4?, each featuring more than 300 pages worth of Jeopardy! boards from Seasons 14–17.

In 2004, Barnes & Noble published This is Jeopardy!: Celebrating America's Favorite Quiz Show, in honor of the show's 20th anniversary. Written by Ray Richmond, it featured selected Final Jeopardy! answers and questions from each of the show's first 20 seasons, plus trivia and other notable facts about the show. The book was released prior to Ken Jennings' run on the show.

The Jeopardy! Book of Answers was released in 2018 in honor of the show's 35th anniversary. Written by executive producer Harry Friedman, it highlighted the show's premiere (September 10, 1984), Ken Jennings' first and last games (June 2, 2004 and November 30, 2004, respectively), the 2009–2010 Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational finals (May 6–7, 2010), the IBM Challenge (February 14–16, 2011), the Battle of the Decades finals (May 15–16, 2014), the Season 33 College Championship finals (February 23–24, 2017), the Season 33 Teachers Tournament finals (May 18–19, 2017), and the Season 34 Tournament of Champions finals (November 16–17, 2017).

A number of unauthorized books have been published about Jeopardy!, written by people with ties to the show. Inside Jeopardy!: What Really Goes on at TV's Top Quiz Show (1993), written by former Jeopardy! writer and producer Harry Eisenberg, was reissued in 1995 as Jeopardy!: A Revealing Look Inside TV's Top Quiz Show with several allegations of scandal removed. Eisenberg's books contained numerous factual errors and unsubstantiated claims.{{cite web |last=McNear |first=Claire |date=May 2, 2023 |title=The Search of the Lost 'Jeopardy!' Tapes Is Over. The Mystery Behind Them Endures. |url=https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/23705821/jeopardy-lost-tapes-barbara-lowe-mystery-champion |access-date=June 8, 2023 |website=The Ringer}} Secrets of the Jeopardy! Champions (1992), written by Tournament of Champions winners Chuck Forrest and Mark Lowenthal, and How to Get on Jeopardy! and Win! (1998), written by Tournament of Champions winner Michael Dupée, serve as preparation aids for the Jeopardy! contestant hopeful; and Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs (2006), by 74-game winner and later host Ken Jennings and Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! (2006), written by comedian and former contestant Bob Harris, provide the insights of the extensive Jeopardy! experiences of two other notable champions who subsequently became authors of several books each.

Trebek's autobiography The Answer Is... features the show prominently and draws its name from the show's catchphrase.{{cite news |last=Haupt |first=Angela |date=July 21, 2020 |title=Alex Trebek's memoir, 'The Answer Is . . .,' is everything a 'Jeopardy!' fan could want |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/alex-trebeks-memoir-the-answer-is----is-everything-a-jeopardy-fan-could-want/2020/07/20/711f68ba-cab8-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html |accessdate=July 22, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

The earliest board games based on Jeopardy! were produced by Milton Bradley, which produced thirteen such games throughout the course of the original Fleming version's run (issued annually from 1964 through 1976); these games were numbered 1–12 and 14, skipping 13.

The Trebek version has also seen various board game adaptations of its own. Pressman Toy Corporation first marketed several versions in the mid-to-late 1980s, including a version with electric signal devices and scoring consoles released in 1987, a "junior" edition (with questions for children ages 8–12) and a "25th Anniversary Edition" to mark the anniversary of the original Art Fleming version debut; the latter had special games featuring questions relating to the 1960s (although mistakenly stating that the original version debuted in 1965 rather than in 1964), in addition to new questions. Later versions were produced in the early 2000s, including a standard version, a version themed after The Simpsons, and most recently, an ESPN-branded sports version (in both standard and "travel folio" variants) which, like the 1987 version before it, features an electronic buzz-in console. Tyco Toys and Parker Brothers have also manufactured their own board game adaptations of the Trebek version of Jeopardy!{{cite web|url=http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2766/jeopardy|title=Jeopardy! board games|work=Board Game Geek|access-date=June 11, 2013}}

In both the Milton Bradley and Pressman versions, each game (a full Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! round) had five categories each; the host designated one of the Double Jeopardy! questions as "Final Jeopardy." The game played identically to the show otherwise.

Jeopardy! has been adapted into a number of video games released on various consoles and handhelds spanning multiple hardware generations.{{Cite web|title=The Best Educational Video Games of All Time|url=http://certificationmap.com/the-top-seven-educational-video-games-of-all-time/|publisher=Certification Map|date=July 28, 2009|access-date=May 21, 2013|archive-date=April 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430195055/http://certificationmap.com/the-top-seven-educational-video-games-of-all-time/|url-status=dead}} Most Jeopardy! games released prior to 1998 were published by GameTek, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection that year.

An Atari 2600 adaptation of Jeopardy! was planned by The Great Game Co. in 1983, but that game ended up being cancelled during development.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Atari 2600|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1983/2600-4843|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} This would have been the only video game based on the Fleming version if it were released.

Then, from 1987 to 1990, Rare developed a series of three Jeopardy! games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The first features general knowledge questions,{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Based on the Top Hit TV Game Show! for NES|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-based-on-the-top-hit-tv-game-show/nes-7473|publisher=IGN|access-date=May 21, 2013}} the second is a "Junior Edition" featuring easier questions and child contestants,{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Jr. for NES|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-jr/nes-7475|website=IGN|access-date=May 21, 2013}} and the third is an "Anniversary Edition" honoring the 25th anniversary of the original Art Fleming version's debut.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-25th-anniversary/nes-7474|website=IGN|access-date=May 21, 2013}} The Super Jeopardy! specials were given a video game adaptation for the NES, titled Talking Super Jeopardy! because of its periodic use of voice synthesis.{{Cite web|title=Talking Super Jeopardy!|url=http://www.ign.com/games/talking-super-jeopardy/nes-7476|website=IGN|access-date=May 21, 2013}} Entertainment Weekly gave the game a C.{{Cite magazine |last=Strauss |first=Bob |date=August 23, 1991 |title=Jeopardy! |url=https://ew.com/article/1991/08/23/jeopardy-3/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910094554/https://ew.com/article/1991/08/23/jeopardy-3/ |archive-date=2018-09-10 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

In 1992, GameTek released Jeopardy! video games for the Super NES{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Super NES|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1992/snes-490912|website=IGN|access-date=May 21, 2013}} and the Genesis.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Genesis|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1993/gen-9132|website=IGN|access-date=May 21, 2013}} These two games were followed up by "Deluxe Editions"{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition for Super NES|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-deluxe-edition/snes-490913|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition for Genesis|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-deluxe-edition/gen-490914|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} and "Sports Editions"{{Cite magazine|date=May 1994|title=Taking a Peek|url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=118 |magazine=Computer Gaming World|pages=174–180}}{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Sports Edition for Super NES|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-sports-edition/snes-573804|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Sports Edition for Genesis|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-sports-edition/gen-6501|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} in 1993 and 1994 respectively. Of the "Sports Editions" in particular, Computer Gaming World said that despite their "many flaws", they "[exude] a certain degree of charm" in emulating the positive and negative aspects of the television show.{{r|cgw199405}} Later in 1994, Sony Imagesoft created a game based on the show for the Sega CD (with a subsequent PC version released in 1995),{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Sega CD|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1994/sega-cd-7752|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}{{Cite magazine |last=Strauss |first=Bob |date=February 3, 1995 |title=Jeopardy! |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/02/03/jeopardy-2/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} while Philips Interactive Media released a version on CD-i the following year, with clues being read by Wheel of Fortune announcer Charlie O'Donnell instead of Alex Trebek.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for CD-i|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1995/cd-i-497640|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} GameTek's last Jeopardy! video game was completed and released after its bankruptcy,{{cite magazine |title=GameTek Lives|magazine=GamePro|issue=115|publisher=IDG|date=April 1998|page=28}} being published in 1998 for the Nintendo 64. It received negative reviews which criticized its graphics (particularly the absence of animation on the contestants) and the frequent recycling of questions.{{Cite web|last=Casamassina |first=Matt |title=Jeopardy! for N64|date=26 February 1998 |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/02/26/jeopardy-7|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}{{cite magazine |title=Review Crew: Jeopardy! |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly |publisher=Ziff Davis |issue=104 |date=March 1998 |page=115}} According to Gametek, the latter issue results from the fact that the game loses track of which questions have already been used every time the Nintendo 64 is powered off.

Hasbro Interactive produced two Jeopardy! video game adaptations of its own for Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation console in 1998 and 2000 (with subsequent PC versions released in the same years as the PlayStation versions); both versions feature clues that are read by announcer Johnny Gilbert instead of host Alex Trebek, while the latter appears in FMV sequences;{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for PlayStation|date=10 December 1998 |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/12/10/jeopardy|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} while the second edition features behind-the-scenes interviews, an all-access backstage video, and a qualifying exam for contestants.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! 2 Review|date=13 May 2000 |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/05/13/jeopardy-2|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} Afterwards, Hasbro Interactive's successor Atari Interactive released a PlayStation 2 edition in October 2003 (with a PC version released the previous year).{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! 2003 for PlayStation 2|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-2003/ps2-496592|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} Then in 2008, Sony Online Entertainment created a Jeopardy! game for the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network, using the Gamebryo engine.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for PS3|date=13 September 2008 |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/09/13/jeopardy-review|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}

On November 2, 2010, THQ released Jeopardy! video games for the Wii{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Wii|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-77933/wii-77934|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314060621/http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-77933/wii-77934|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 14, 2016|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} and Nintendo DS platforms.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Nintendo DS|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-77933/nds-77931|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205233909/http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-77933/nds-77931|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2016|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} The company followed those up in 2012 by releasing games based on the show as a reworked version of the Wii version for the PlayStation 3, the Wii U, and Microsoft's Xbox 360.{{Cite web |title=Jeopardy! [2012] |url=https://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-2012 |website=IGN |access-date=May 22, 2013}}

On November 6, 2017, Ubisoft released Jeopardy! for PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, using the Unity engine. It would later be released on the Nintendo Switch a year later. However, the generic female host takes over Alex Trebek (before his death in 2020), while Johnny Gilbert still remains as announcer on the title screen, following the show's opening titles.

A Game Boy version of Jeopardy! was released by GameTek in 1991,{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Game Boy|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1991/gb-5475|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} and went on to spawn a "Sports Edition."{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Sports Edition for Game Boy|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-sports-edition/gb-496465|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} Both versions were ported to the Game Boy's Sega rival, the Game Gear.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Game Gear|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1993/gg-828779|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Sports Edition for Game Gear|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-sports-edition/gg-492979|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} The gameplay in the Sports Edition is identical to the Super NES and Genesis versions, though the portable versions lack the digitized voice and image of Alex Trebek and support only two players (where the console versions support three).{{cite magazine|title=The Answer Is... Jeopardy! Sports Edition|magazine=GamePro|issue=59|publisher=IDG|date=June 1994|page=80}} Tiger Electronics also released several Jeopardy! electronic games of its own, including a version for its Game.com system.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! on Game.com|date=20 July 1999 |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/1999/07/20/jeopardy-4|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} In 2004, Majesco Entertainment planned a port of Jeopardy! for Game Boy Color,{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! for Game Boy Color|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-2004/gbc-10777|website=IGN|access-date=March 23, 2014}} but those plans failed to materialize because the handheld had been discontinued by then.

In 2010, Sony Pictures Television, the show's production company, released an adaptation for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Platinum for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store – Original Page|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jeopardy-platinum/id377127117?mt=8|publisher=Apple Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909040943/http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jeopardy-platinum/id377127117?mt=8|archive-date=September 9, 2010|access-date=May 22, 2013}} The system was updated in 2012 with a number of online and local multiplayer modes.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Platinum for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jeopardy-platinum/id377127117?mt=8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909040943/http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jeopardy-platinum/id377127117?mt=8|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2010|publisher=Apple Inc.|access-date=May 22, 2013}}

In May 18, 2017, Sony Pictures Television once again released another adaptation, this time called as the Jeopardy! World Tour, for free on iOS and Android devices.{{Cite web|title=The 'Jeopardy! World Tour' Mobile Game Has Arrived|url=https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/jeopardy-world-tour-mobile-game-has-arrived|access-date=May 18, 2017}}

There have been many adaptations for personal computers. The first was released in 1987 by ShareData, which also released versions for the Apple II and the Commodore 64.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! PC (1987)|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1987/pc-765468|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} Sony Imagesoft later released an MS-DOS version in 1994, along with the Sega CD version.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! PC (1994)|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1994/pc-765473|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} In 1998, shortly after GameTek's closure, Hasbro Interactive created a Windows edition of Jeopardy!,{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! PC (1998)|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1998-807664/pc-10558|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031054906/http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-1998-807664/pc-10558|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 31, 2012|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} which was followed up by a Mac version developed by MacSoft in 2000,{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! (2000) for Macintosh|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-2000/mac-853126|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} and later by an updated version published by Infogrames in 2003.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! 2003 for PC|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-2003/pc-491734|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}} The show's latest Windows adaptation was a "Super Deluxe" edition released by Encore, Inc. in 2008.{{Cite web|title=Jeopardy! Super Deluxe|url=http://www.ign.com/games/jeopardy-super-deluxe/pc-14323994|website=IGN|access-date=May 22, 2013}}

In April 2011, GSN's interactive division teamed up with Sony Pictures Consumer Products to develop a Jeopardy! online game for Facebook,{{Cite news|title="Jeopardy!" Facebook Game Now Available from GSN Digital and Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc.|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2011/04/25/jeopardy-facebook-game-now-available-from-gsn-digital-and-sony-pictures-consumer-products-inc-804013/20110425sony01/|publisher=The Futon Critic|date=April 25, 2011}} but that game has since been taken down. As of March 2013, video game adaptations of Jeopardy! also exist on Twitter, Android, and the Roku Channel Store.{{Cite web|title=This is JEOPARDY! – Games & Mobile|url=http://www.jeopardy.com/gamesandmobile/allgames/|publisher=Sony Pictures Digital and Jeopardy Productions|access-date=March 19, 2013|archive-date=March 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320021607/http://www.jeopardy.com/gamesandmobile/allgames/|url-status=dead}}

In 2002, in response to educators praising the longevity of the show's popularity and their students creating their own versions of the game to encourage student participation in class, educational toy company Educational Insights (which markets the GeoSafari system) released Classroom Jeopardy!, a self-contained, programmable game system based on Jeopardy! designed for use in schools.{{cite book | last=Richmond | first=Ray | title=This is Jeopardy!: Celebrating America's Favorite Quiz Show | publisher=Barnes & Noble Books | isbn=978-0-76-075374-3 | year=2004 | page=210 }} With this system, the teacher plays the role of host, while students can play the game on a normal classroom television set or an interactive whiteboard. Teachers are permitted to either use standardized games created for the grade levels of their classes, or write customized games of their own covering material that they are teaching at the moment.{{cite web | title = Classroom Jeopardy! | publisher = Sony Pictures Digital | url = http://www.jeopardy.com/classroomjeopardy/?hs317=essential_ClassroomJeop | access-date = October 17, 2012 | archive-date = October 14, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121014063301/http://www.jeopardy.com/classroomjeopardy/?hs317=essential_ClassroomJeop | url-status = dead }} Originally, the game used a cartridge-based system for the categories and wireless remotes for the players and the host, with the unit itself acting as the scoreboard. There was also a small laptop-style keyboard that connected to the game unit and allowed for programming the cartridges via a small LCD screen on the unit. The uprated version of the system replaced the LCD screen and keyboard with a USB-connected device known as the "Classroom Jeopardy! Link," which allowed programming of the cartridges (and storage of unused games) via a PC or Macintosh (which included "Classroom Jeopardy! Editor" software).

The success of Classroom Jeopardy! led to the production of a home version, called Host Your Own Jeopardy!, which was released in 2004. Except for the names and included question content, this version was identical to the Classroom version. The Classroom edition featured one cartridge with 5 pre-programmed school-subject-based games; while the Host Your Own edition included four cartridges featuring 20 games used on the show, ranging from Kids Week level to Tournament Of Champions level. Educational Insights also produced additional scoreboards and controller units that could be connected to the main system and allow for more players per game (a maximum of nine additional scoreboards could be added, making for a maximum of 30 players/teams per game, although only the six highest-scoring players/teams could participate in Final Jeopardy!).

In 2011, Educational Insights released an updated version of the Classroom Jeopardy! system. The updated system featured a restyling of the console and remotes, dry-erase Final Jeopardy! boards, and a host remote with LCD "correct response" display. Additional functions included the ability to enter players' names into the console, and more varied wagers for Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy! Additionally, this system used USB Flash Drives in place of the cartridges to program the console (the system included a 512K Flash Drive, but other larger Flash Drives could also be used). This also makes the updated system capable of using audiovisual clues (such as audio and video clips, music cues, and still images), properly-formatted math equation clues, and foreign "romance language" characters. The new system is not backward-compatible with the older cartridges and accessories, but games written with the older system's software can be easily converted via the new system's "Clue Studio" program. The entirety of the new system also fits into an included storage suitcase, allowing for easier transport of the unit. Both editions of the game were available after the release of the newer model, but since then, both have been discontinued. The websites for purchase have since gone down.{{cite web|url=http://www.educationalinsights.com/category/classroom+jeopardy!--174-/about/7910+-+original+version.do?nType=2 |title=Original Classroom Jeopardy! System page |publisher=Educational Insights |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907045729/http://www.educationalinsights.com/category/classroom%2Bjeopardy%21--174-/about/7910%2B-%2Boriginal%2Bversion.do?nType=2 |archive-date=September 7, 2011 |access-date=October 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.educationalinsights.com/category/id/118682.do|title=Current Classroom Jeopardy! System page|publisher=Educational Insights|access-date=October 17, 2012}}

A DVD titled Jeopardy!: An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz Show was released on November 8, 2005 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It features five of the most memorable episodes of the Trebek version: the very first Trebek episode in 1984, Episode #4657 (Ken Jennings' losing episode), and Episodes #4781, #4782, and #4783 (the three-game finals of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, the last of which can be viewed through multiple camera angles),{{cite web|title=Synopsis of Jeopardy!: An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz Show |publisher=Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |year=2005 |url=http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/jeopardy-aninsidelookatamericasfavoritequizshow!/title-navigation-2.html |access-date=December 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017063819/http://sonypictures.com/homevideo/jeopardy-aninsidelookatamericasfavoritequizshow%21/title-navigation-2.html |archive-date=October 17, 2007 |url-status=dead }} and there are also three featurettes: 21 Years of Answers and Questions, which discusses the show's history; and Jeopardy!: Behind the Answers and What Does It Take to Get a Clue?, both of which discuss the show's question selection process.{{cite web|title=Special Features Listing for Jeopardy!: An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz Show |publisher=Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |year=2005 |url=http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/jeopardy-aninsidelookatamericasfavoritequizshow!/title-navigation-5.html |access-date=December 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017063819/http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/jeopardy-aninsidelookatamericasfavoritequizshow%21/title-navigation-5.html |archive-date=October 17, 2007 |url-status=dead }} The DVD also features some funny moments from the show, including Trebek presenting the beginning of the first show of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions Finals without trousers, and Johnny Gilbert mistaking Trebek for contestant coordinator Glenn Kagan, who rehearses as him; both of these are Easter eggs displayed as the show's trademark "Daily Doubles". The DVD's menu is displayed as the show's trademark game board, with the menu options as "categories"; picking one of these causes the board to load up, complete with sound effect, similar to the show.{{cite web|title=Sitcoms Online – Jeopardy! – An Inside Look at America's Favorite Game Show DVD|url=http://www.sitcomsonline.com/jeopardyinsidelookdvdreview.html}}

In 2007, MGA Entertainment released the Jeopardy! DVD Home Game System, which allows groups of players to play the game of Jeopardy! from home with a similar experience to appearing on the actual show.{{Cite press release|title=Jeopardy! Goes Interactive on DVD: Home Game Recreates the Live Experience for Fans|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/jeopardy/entertainment/prweb553487.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411163149/http://www.prweb.com/releases/jeopardy/entertainment/prweb553487.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 11, 2013|publisher=MGA Entertainment|date=September 13, 2007|access-date=March 19, 2013}}

For the show's 15th anniversary season in 1998–99, a collectible watch was released. It plays the show's theme song, "Think!", with a push of a button, and includes 25 game cards with the answer-question format. Despite poor sales, several watches are currently being auctioned and sold on eBay as of today.

Every year, Day-to-Day Calendars' subsidiary Andrews McMeel Publishing releases a daily desktop Jeopardy! calendar, featuring 52 games for every week of the year, all of which have 1 clue per day (with the correct response on the back of each day's sheet). Entries for Monday through Wednesday are Jeopardy! Round Clues, those for Thursday through Saturday are Double Jeopardy! Round clues, and Sunday's entry is a Final Jeopardy! clue which allows the owner to "wager" all or part of their "total weekly winnings."

The brand has also been licensed into various slot machine games for casinos and the Internet.

On June 21, 2024, host Ken Jennings announced during the game a Jeopardy!-themed postage stamp to be released on Alex Trebek's birthday on July 22.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/06/25/alex-trebek-forever-stamp/74203326007/|title=Who is... Alex Trebek? Former 'Jeopardy!' host to be honored with USPS Forever stamp|work=USA Today|last=DeLetter|first=Emily|date=June 25, 2024|access-date=October 22, 2024}}

The popularity of Jeopardy! in the United States has led the show's format to launch in many foreign countries throughout the world. This has led the American version to conduct "International Tournaments" in which champions from the show's foreign adaptations competed in a one-week tournament identical to the semifinals and finals of the American version's "Tournament of Champions".Richmond, p. 150. "[For Season 13, new producer Harry Friedman's] first order of business: travel to Sweden for Jeopardy!s first-ever tapings in a foreign country....The international tournament is shot on the set of the Jeopardy! version in Stockholm, complete with ring-in apparatus that find contestants banging on plungers rather than ringing buzzers. Michael Daunt of Canada wins the international championship."{{cite book | last=Harris | first=Bob | title=Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! | url=https://archive.org/details/prisoneroftrebek00bobh | url-access=registration | isbn=0-307-33956-4 | publisher=Crown Publishers | location=New York | page=[https://archive.org/details/prisoneroftrebek00bobh/page/15 15] | year=2006 | quote=Like any burgeoning empire, Jeopardy! has also swept across distant lands, with local versions in Canada, England, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Israel, and Australia. This led eventually to the International Tournament of 1997, which was won by Michael Daunt, a mild-mannered accountant from Canada with a kindly demeanor and a killer instinct that emerges about every twelve seconds.}}

Most versions are faithful to the American version's format, but some use unique formats of their own; for example, the Czech, Slovak and Italian adaptations eschew the show's trademark "answer and question" format in favor of a simple, standard quiz format, where clues are presented as questions or tasks and the contestants simply answer the questions or perform the tasks indicated, rather than providing responses phrased in the form of a question.

Even though the program has spawned many foreign adaptations, the American syndicated version of Jeopardy! is itself broadcast across the world, with international distribution rights held by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

In Canada, Jeopardy! had aired largely on local stations since its debut. Like most American game shows that air in Canada, Canadians are eligible to appear as contestants on the American version, with notable examples including 1990 Tournament of Champions winner Bob Blake and 1997 International Jeopardy! Tournament winner Michael Daunt. Before 2008, Jeopardy! aired across Canada mostly on CTV stations, although the Vancouver CTV station CIVT-TV has never aired the show (the show has aired before on local Global station CHAN-TV).

From 2008 to 2012, the show was broadcast by all affiliates of CBC Television except for CBET-DT in Windsor, Ontario (due to broadcast rights in that region being held by WDIV-TV in Detroit).{{cite web|title=CBC Television – Jeopardy!|publisher=CBC Television|url=http://www.cbc.ca/jeopardy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923102736/http://www.cbc.ca/jeopardy/|archive-date=September 23, 2008|access-date=April 27, 2013}} Funding decreases to CBC led to the network declining to renew Jeopardy! and Wheel for the 2012–13 season.{{cite news|last=DeMara|first=Bruce|title=CBC not renewing Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/1170606--cbc-not-renewing-jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune|access-date=22 May 2012|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=1 May 2012|location=Toronto ON}}

As of 2018, Yes TV currently serves as Canada's syndicator for Jeopardy! episodes. NTV, a Newfoundland-based semi-independent television station, has carried the show through its run on CTV and Yes TV.

In French Canada, just as Wheel of Fortune once had its own French-Canadian version, there was also a French-Canadian version of Jeopardy! that aired for a few seasons in Quebec, on TVA, from 1991 to 1993.

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