Jeopardy has logged its 9,000th episode with the Friday, March 22 installment. And each single certainly one of them has been introduced by Johnny Gilbert, who at 95 remains to be going sturdy because the Jeopardy announcer.
Gilbert has been with the collection because it debuted in 1984, identical to the late Alex Trebek. The March 22 episode ended with a celebratory salute to its decades-long historical past, commemorating the 1000’s of video games and contestants. The tribute suits in nicely with Jeopardy‘s upcoming Diamond Celebration commemorating the present’s sixtieth anniversary on September 10, 2024. Beginning March 30 and thru the remainder of the 12 months, Jeopardy followers can take part in occasions, get particular merchandise, and see a nationwide tour.
“For 60 years, Jeopardy! has been America’s favourite sport of the thoughts, defying time and persevering with to draw viewers of all generations,” mentioned Suzanne Prete, President, Sport Reveals, Sony Photos Tv when the tour was introduced. “Just like the true diamond that it’s, we’re excited to deliver our followers a 12 months of festivities to honor this vital milestone whereas inspiring enthusiasm for the franchise’s future via the sixtieth Diamond Celebration.” Get all the data on the Diamond Celebration right here.
The collection has hosted its share of particular occasions through the years within the type of particular tournaments. Tournaments are the present’s present bread and butter, the present one being the model new Jeopardy Invitational Event (JIT), which invitations former winners and fan-favorites to compete for a $100,000 prize and an invite to the following installment of Jeopardy Masters.
Competing on March 22 was Alan Lin, a software program engineer from Los Angeles, California; Matt Jackson, a grad scholar in laptop science and public coverage initially from Washington, D.C.; and Terry O’Shea, a software program engineer from Brooklyn, New York.
Matt began the sport as a excessive scorer, with $8,200 logged by the primary break and $9,600 by the second. Alan and Terry did their finest to catch up, however that’s arduous to do when your competitor finds all three Every day Doubles and solutions them appropriately. Matt’s three Every day Double wagers have been excessive, the very best being his third wager of $12,000. That helped him begin Closing Jeopardy with a rating of $41,200. Alan had $14,000, and Terry had $5,800.
A protected closing wager allowed Matt to win with a runaway sport. His closing rating was $41,321, Alan’s was $14,001, and Terry guess and misplaced all of it. Not a nasty winner’s rating for the 9,000th episode!
