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Friday Nov 27 | 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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television, Charlottesville, VA

Thu Nov 26, 2009

The Huffington Post

Brian Ross: Can We Separate Television News from the Game Show Mentality?

American television news is returning to its roots as an information wasteland. Pretty faces with largely empty heads read teleprompters and mug for the camera.

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Related Topix: Game Show, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Social Software

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Forward

Jeopardy' Does Jews' Clues In the Holy Land

I'll take Israel for $2,000, Alex. That's what contestants on "Jeopardy!" were saying November 23, when the famous quiz show included a Double Jeopardy category titled "A Journey Through Israel." Host Alex Trebek and his team, the Clue Crew, traveled to the Holy Land in early September, the show's first time there, to tape the questions, which also ...

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Travel, Israel Travel

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television

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: Jeopardy, Game Show, Entertainment, Television, Ecuador, World News, Ecuador Travel, Travel

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television, Florida State University

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Hartford Courant

Kevin Rennie: The Right a " And Wrong a " Way To Run

For the first time since 1970, a governor will not seek re-election while the fortunes of a U.S. senator named Dodd plummet.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Joseph Lieberman, US News, Christopher Dodd, US Senate, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Opinion

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television, World News, Ecuador

Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Detroit News

Trebek tours Ford plant before 'Jeopardy!' taping

Dearborn -- Alex Trebek, host of 'Jeopardy!,' one of the nation's most popular quiz shows, made a rare visit to Metro Detroit Thursday to tape clues for the show at Ford Motor Co.

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Related Topix: Ford, Dearborn, MI, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Fairfax Times

Congratulations 11/10

Karen Juckett of Springfield was one of 25 lucky sweepstakes winners who recently returned from a cruise with "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek to the GalA pagos Islands, the "Land of Darwin." In the first-ever such expedition with Trebek, sweepstakes winners and their guests traveled aboard the National Geographic Endeavour from Oct.

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Related Topix: Springfield, VA, Medicine, Nursing, Herndon, VA, Fairfax, VA, Marymount University

Wed Nov 04, 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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television, Charlottesville, VA, Charlottesville Metro

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Michele Malkin

a oeThey are reporters, not trivia experts. And the buzzer is complicated.a

You'll love the excuses being made for the abysmal Jeopardy! performances of CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien, including: "They are reporters, not trivia experts.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

Press-Citizen

Students at Horn aim to help others

It was all about the hats Wednesday morning at Horn Elementary. Teachers Kelly Neveln, Brad Bolender and Lori Kasparek, each wearing a fun hat, played a special version of "Jeopardy!," complete with fellow teacher Mary Green as Alex Trebek.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Pudding, Iowa City, IA

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television

Mon Oct 19, 2009

The Post Chronicle

VIDEO: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Flubs Jeopardy Question About Alma Mater UCLA

Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar flubbed a question about something he said while a player at UCLA, thinking the question was about himself.

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Related Topix: Airplane!, Comedy Movies, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Entertainment

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television, Concentration, Paul Harvey

Sat Oct 17, 2009

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television

Fri Oct 16, 2009

New York Magazine

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Embarrassed on Jeopardy

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got laughs last night while appearing on celebrity Jeopardy! with fellow guests Soledad O'Brien and Michael McKean.

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Related Topix: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Entertainment

Mon Oct 12, 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: Jeopardy, Game Show, Entertainment, Television

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, Jeopardy, Entertainment, Television, Concentration, Drama, Soap Opera, Dynasty, Land of the Lost, Children TV

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