Ever watch Jeopardy? My friends say I should be on the show.
have you of Jeopardy? is a  television game show created by Merv Griffin.
Um... well yes, I have. I'm not quite as good as Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List, but I do like to play along.
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show features a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions. The original daytime version debuted on NBC on March 30, 1964, and aired until January 3, 1975. A weekly nighttime syndicated edition aired from September 1974 to September 1975, and a revival, "The All-New Jeopardy!", ran on NBC from October
, contestants who finish Double Jeopardy! with a $0 or negative score on either day do not play Final Jeopardy! that day; their score for that leg is recorded as $0.
Conception and development.
In a 1964 Associated Press profile released shortly before the original "Jeopardy!" series premiered, Merv Griffin offered the following account of how he created the quiz show:
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board