Jeopardy TV Show

As the ‘Jeopardy’ host Alex Trebek recently made headlines, for chasing a burglar down the alleys of a San Francisco hotel at 2:30 a.m., the press did a great job at reading between the lines.

The buzz that was doing rounds was not just that Alex had ruptured a tendon and recovered a bracelet and some cash, but also that he sleeps in the nude.

Now, one may wonder where on earth that cropped up from.

Well, Alex’s statement about “putting on his underwear” and chasing after the woman is responsible for the entire controversy. More than a month later, as Alex recovered from theoperation that he had to undergo, the question is finally popped before him- Do you sleep in the nude?

Alex immediately clears the air off the controversy, saying that he does not. So where did the underwear statement come in from? No matter how personal it might be, the 71-year old makes no qualms for being completely candid about that particular night.

He explains that he was sleeping with a t-shirt on, and had taken off his bottoms because of an injury that he had sustained on his left knee around a year ago, which caused immense pain when it came in contact with his pyjamas.

Well, we guess we’ll buy that story out of sympathy and respect for the man we so love!

But to put it in the words of the co-host of NBC’s Today Show, Matt Lauer, we hope that he recovers, though we really didn’t need to know that he sleeps in the nude.

After the entire controversy, it seems that the ‘Jeopardy!’ host will be a lot more careful with his words, the next time around.

You can watch Jeopardy online to see him hosting the show in a manner that has gone on to become indispensable to the show’s success. You can also download any past episodes of the show that you might have missed.

Quiz competitions are a big no-no for me! They are agonizingly clichéd, quoting encyclopedias on the too often repeated facts and figures.

Thankfully, Jeopardy figures as a monotony-shattering exception in the mind-shuddering world of question and answers.

It defies the age-old conventions of the customary quiz shows, and puts the human intellect through a test like never-before.

Putting innovation to good use, it turns around the typical question-answer format to its-own ‘answer-question’ format.

One’s intuition is put through a tough grind, during the course of the competition. It’s not a game for the people who are mere knowledge banks; it’s a contest for those, who can play with their accumulated knowledge.

Of course, to identify a question from its answer is not possible through wild guesses. A match up between intuition and intelligence is a must to have an upper hand in the tricky game of Jeopardy.

You enjoy the show, not because it adds to what you know about the world and its people; you actually enjoy its entertainment-rich format.

Jeopardy episodes are just the right dosage for an information-hungry mind, for they have the innovative edge in their kitty, to keep us on our seat’s edge.

There are many takers for this quiz competition and if you are one of them, you know that it’s because you get something refreshing, served on your platter of entertainment.

Long live Jeopardy, as it comes as a pleasant surprise in the bamboozling world of questions and answers!