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Whether learning for its own sake or for school review, Jeopardy is a fun way to test or increase your knowledge. Watch it on TV or create your own game. You can ... play it online at Microsoft Network. But if you want to show what you already know, learn how to register as a contestant at Sony Pictures Television.
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What the Jeopardy writers have done is invented a way to do in situ Wh-questions in English using demonstratives to mark the Wh-element, instead of the usual pattern of moving the Wh-element to the front of a constituent question. Part of what makes Jeopardy fun, I think, is this extra bit of grammar that contestants and viewers have to acquire in order to play—the way the writers phrase clues in order to elicit particular responses is a narrow, Jeopardy-specific dialect of English, and learning it gives us access to the game.
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Sometimes, contestants will finish Double Jeopardy! with either $0 or a negative score. If that happens, they are automatically eliminated from the game and not allowed to participate in the game's final round, Final Jeopardy! In this case, the contestants still receive consolation prizes, which (as of 2002) are $1000 for third place and $2000 for second place. In the original 1964 version, no money was awarded if a contestant finished with zero dollars or in the red, but he/she did receive parting gifts. If a returning champion finished in the red, it did not count against their previously accumulated winnings.
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The game is played the same way as Jeopardy on television. Divide players into two or three teams. Without the use of buzzers, you will need to determine the order of play and have teams take turns, making sure all teams receive the same number of questions. If a team answers a question correctly, give that team the card to keep with the dollar amount. After all questions are gone or a certain number of rounds has been completed, tally up each team’s dollar amount to see who is the winner. For added suspense, you may wish to have a separate chalk or marker board (or easel with paper) to add up the scores as you go along.
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In the 1984 syndicated version, there has never been an instance where all three contestants finished Double Jeopardy! with $0 or less, thereby disqualifying everyone from Final Jeopardy! A three-way disqualification from Final Jeopardy! did happen at least once on the 1964 NBC version sometime between 1968 and 1975. During the commercial break between Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy!, an audience member suggested that they could simply replay the game (with different categories) as if the embarrassing result had never happened.
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Let the games continue: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! will be airing through at least 2011-12. The game show renewals were announced Tuesday by Roger King, chief executive officer of CBS Television Distribution.
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