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CNN's Wolf Blitzer appeared on Jeopardy! and ended up with a final score of negative 4600.
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In 2011, when Jeopardy!'s 74-game champion Ken Jennings lost in an exhibition match against IBM's Watson AI program, he wrote under his final response "I for one welcome our new computer overlords".
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If 3 contestants finish double jeopardy with zero or negative dollars, there will be no Final Jeopardy! and 3 new contestants will appear on the next show. This has never happened in the Alex Trebek era (1984-present).
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The most common question on Jeopardy is “What is China?” and Final Jeopardy's most common is “What is Canada?”
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The Firefox logo actually depicts a red panda, a fact which three Jeopardy contestants all didn't know in Final Jeopardy
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The song played during Final Jeopardy! Is called "Think!" And has earned Merv Griffin $70 million in royalties.
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When Wolf Blitzer appeared on Jeopardy!, he ended up at - $4,600. Alex Trebek had to give him $1,000 to stay in for Final Jeopardy.
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Jeopardy contestants have been officially forbidden from wagering $69 on Final Jeopardy
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The theme song in final Jeopardy is titled "Think!" Written by Merv Griffin who also produced the show from 1984-1997.
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Jeopardy doesn't penalized based upon misspelled words but the pronunciation of words. This subtle difference cost 12-Year-Old Thomas Hurley Final Jeopardy for misspelling "emanciptation" in 2013.
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Jeopardy contestants who are visually impaired are given a card with the category names printed in Braille before each round begins, and an audible tone is played after the clue has been read aloud. For the final Jeopardy round, they are given a Braille keyboard to type in a wager and response.
