“Unveiling the Hidden Truths: What Game Show Producers Don’t Want You to Know!”
A Contestant Won Jeopardy On Heavy Drugs
Writer and filmmaker Oliver Stone admitted to being on ecstasy during a 1997 celebrity episode of Jeopardy! He won the game (and $15,000 for charity), and he thinks that the drug made him faster on the buzzer.
I guess things were a bit different back in 1997. Stone says his time on Jeopardy! was one of the highlights of the ’90s for him. It does sound like he had a really good time. Maybe too good of a time.
The Only Man To Make It To A Million
George Smoot, an astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize, was the only man to win the million dollars on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
This game show was definitely harder than its name suggested. Most of us would like to think that we at least have a fifth-grade knowledge base, but it turns out that we forget so much of what we learned in grade school. When was the last time any of us did long division?
The Story Behind The Final Jeopardy Song
The famous Jeopardy! “Think!” theme was composed by the show’s creator, Merv Griffin, in less than a minute as a lullaby for his son. By 2005, he had made over $70 million dollars in royalties from that song, which is the equivalent of a Jeopardy! contestant winning every game for about a decade.
Sometimes it pays to be musical. Other times you end up doodling on a keyboard in your parents’ basement.
