In the Internet age, it can seem as if there’s no reason to remember anything. But information doesn’t always amount to knowledge.
Shows like “Jeopardy!” were as popular in the early years of television as they are today. In the 1955-56 season, the highest-rated show was “The $64,000 Question,” in which contestants won money by answering questions in different categories.
In retrospect, the Van Doren fan-demic seems odd. He held advanced degrees and taught at Columbia; he was distinctly not the man on the street. It helped that he was young and good-looking, and that he really seemed to be sweating out the answers. One of the most popular “Jeopardy!” winners, on the other hand, is Frank Spangenberg, who for a long time held the record for five-day winnings . Spangenberg was a member of the New York City Transit Police.
For Trebek was something between a cult figure and an icon. “Our generation’s Cronkite,” Ken Jennings called him in a column published last year, and the comparison is apt. Walter Cronkite did not report the news. He read cue cards on the air every week night on CBS for nineteen years. Trebek did not write the clues on “Jeopardy!” He read them on the morning of the taping, to make sure he had the pronunciations right.
Competing on “Jeopardy!” brings fame, and for most contestants being able to say that they played a game on the show is all the reward they require. But winning on “Jeopardy!” does not bring riches. In fact, to cast a cold economic eye on the show, “Jeopardy!” contestants constitute an exploited class. Together with its sibling show, “Wheel of Fortune,” another Merv Griffin creation, “Jeopardy!” is said to bring in a hundred and twenty-five million dollars a year.
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