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12 hrs ago | NBC29

Charlottesville Resident On 'Jeopardy'

It's one of the most famous game shows ever, and one Charlottesville wiz got to experience the lights, the cameras and Alex Trebek first hand.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Charlottesville, VA, Alex Trebek

Wed Nov 25, 2009

WFMY 2 Greensboro

Jeopardy! Contestants Silenced By Local History Trivia

Silence filled the studio during taping of Tuesday night's episode of Jeopardy when the contestants were asked a question about a local landmark.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Alex Trebek

Sun Nov 22, 2009

PhillyBurbs.com

What is the trip of a lifetime?

Bill and Barbara Epting rarely miss "Jeopardy," but the Middletown couple never thought their love of the television game show would bring them face to face with a giant 90-year-old tortoise named Lonesome George.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Ecuador, World News, Ecuador Travel, Travel, Alex Trebek

Tallahassee.com

TPD worker to be on 'Jeopardy!'

Patrick Pence will see something on TV Monday night that he's never seen before - himself, competing on the game show 'Jeopardy!'. Pence's appearance on what is known as 'America's favorite quiz show,' airs 7:30 p.m. on WCTV.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Alex Trebek, Florida State University

Sat Nov 21, 2009

301 Moved Permanently

Niles woman returns from 'Jeopardy' trek with Trebek to Galapagos Islands

Barbara Groshon, a financial planner from Niles, recently returned from a 10-day cruise around the Galapagos Islands.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, World News, Ecuador, Alex Trebek

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Spartanburg Herald-Journal

Wofford professor takes biblical history to TV

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 12:56 a.m. He's the Albert C. Outler Professor of Religion at Wofford College and a noted archaeologist who will appear on two television programs over the next week.

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Related Topix: Wofford College, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Game Show, Entertainment, Television

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Courier-Journal

'Gelato guy' takes a licking on 'Jeopardy'

Justin Gilbert grew up researching school reports using a set of encyclopedias his mother won when she was a contestant on the television show "Jeopardy!" in the 1960s.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Hook

Doctor wins Jeopardy cruise

Like bunch of latter day Darwinesque explorers, Charlottesville doctor Randala Lakkis, center, just came back from a 10-day cruise to the Galapagos Islands with her husband, Alfredo Arcila Jr.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Charlottesville, VA, Charlottesville Metro, Alex Trebek

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Media Blog

I Lost on Jeopardy, Part II -- By: Fred Schwarz

Sending a CNN anchor to Jeopardy is like sending Dan Quayle to a spelling bee: CNN should consider banning its anchors from appearing on "Celebrity Jeopardy" after the humiliating defeats of Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien . Wolf was blitzed last month, coming in last with minus-$4,600, behind comic Andy Richter , a past winner who racked up ...

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Comedy, Desperate Housewives, Laverne and Shirley, Saturday Night Live

Sat Oct 24, 2009

New York Times

Seeing Faces Just Made for Radio

From left, the panelists Adam Felber, Paula Poundstone and Mo Rocca on "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me" on Thursday.

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Related Topix: The Daily Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Mo Rocca, Berkeley Heights, NJ, Game Show, Arts

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Park Record

New star spotting site started in Park City

Oakley residents say they see Tom Hanks in town all the time. The Red Banjo Pizzeria says Michael J. Fox is a regular.

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Related Topix: Park City, UT, Oakley, UT, Game Show, Entertainment, Television

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Regina Leader Post

Ontario man on a Jeopardy roll with third win

Alex Trebek, host of the popular quiz show, Jeopardy. Photograph by: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Kevin Wilson just keeps on rolling against his Jeopardy opponents and now has nearly $77,000 to show for it.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Alex Trebek

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Daily Journal

Did Hugh Downs host show before Alex Trebek?

By DAVID INMAN Question: My husband says that he remembers Hugh Downs hosting 'Jeopardy!' before Alex Trebek and he bet me $1,000 that he is right.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Concentration, Alex Trebek, Paul Harvey

National Ledger

Sports Oops! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Flubs It (Video) on Jeopardy

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar should know a bit of his own movie history but when asked a question on the popular TV game show Jeopardy from host Alex Trebek he missed the shot! The question was about a line from his own character from the cult classic "Airplane" where Jabbar plays the co-pilot. USA Today has the video here and this...The answer is - For ...

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Related Topix: Game Show, Airplane!, Comedy Movies, Entertainment, Television, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Alex Trebek

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

Whoopi Goldberg wants you and your loved ones to play a Head...

Tonight, The Science Channel will debut its first ever quiz show, the Whoopi Goldberg-produced Head Games .

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Alex Trebek

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Toronto Sun

Nothing trivial about it

Kevin Wilson has tasted the thrill of putting himself in Jeopardy! As in the popular TV quiz show.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Texas

Wed Oct 14, 2009

Home News Tribune - Central Jersey

Game-show format provides senior with dose of information about medicine

Some Monroe seniors got a pharmacy-style dose of 'Jeopardy!' On Oct. 8, pharmaceutical experts from the Princeton HealthCare System in Princeton visited the senior center in the township to teach those in attendance about medications and drug interactions by playing a game patterned after the popular quiz show.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Alex Trebek

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Contra Costa Times

Our Neighbors: What is El Cerrito's wedding connection to popular TV game show?

Can an appearance on a popular television game show be a life-changing event? That appears to be the case for a former El Cerrito woman who appeared on "Jeopardy!" in 2004.

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Related Topix: El Cerrito, CA, Wedding, Game Show, Entertainment, Television, 9, Berkeley, CA, UC Berkeley

Sun Oct 11, 2009

The Tennessean

Hugh Downs was never in 'Jeopardy'

Dear David: My husband says that he remembers Hugh Downs hosting Jeopardy! before Alex Trebek and he bet me $1,000 that he is right.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Concentration, Alex Trebek, Drama, Soap Opera, Dynasty, Land of the Lost, Children TV

Fri Oct 09, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Incredible Inman: Game-show Hugh

Dear David: My husband says that he remembers Hugh Downs hosting "Jeopardy!" before Alex Trebek, and he bet me $1,000 that he is right.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Concentration, Alex Trebek

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