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Sanjay Gupta to host Jeopardy for the next 2 weeks. He wrote an interesting essay about it:
gives a look into the behind the scenes of what goes on to make Jeopardy. I found it a fun, interesting read.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/health/jeopardy-host-sanjay-gupta-essay/index.html
The "Jeopardy!" team of producers, writers and Clue Crew is considered the very best in the business, and it was easy to see why. It is a finely tuned machine with professionals at the top of their game. Mike Richards, Lisa Broffman, Rocky Schmidt and Billy Wisse led the daily meeting that took place in an actual library!
We sat around a table surrounded by voluminous sets of biographies and bibliographies. It even had that perfect library smell. If someone wasn't sure about a clue, one of the genius writers would run off to a row of books, pull out the appropriate text and start flipping through pages. Sure, there was someone at a computer as well, but the whole feel of the meeting was so studious and so scholarly: very "Jeopardy!"
I loved it and felt right at home.
For starters, I was blown away by the incredible speed at which the game is played. Even though I had watched "Jeopardy!" for decades, I never really considered the pace of the show.
I would have 61 clues to deliver for every game. Thirty for the first round, 30 more for "Double Jeopardy!" and then one "Final Jeopardy!" clue. When I did the math for a half-hour show, accounting for things like commercial breaks and interviews with the contestants, I calculated I needed recite a new clue roughly every 15 seconds. In order to accomplish that, I had to be in constant control, keeping everyone focused and moving the show along.
One more thing: The goal was to tape five shows a day. That is 305 clues. One every 15 seconds.
We sat around a table surrounded by voluminous sets of biographies and bibliographies. It even had that perfect library smell. If someone wasn't sure about a clue, one of the genius writers would run off to a row of books, pull out the appropriate text and start flipping through pages. Sure, there was someone at a computer as well, but the whole feel of the meeting was so studious and so scholarly: very "Jeopardy!"
I loved it and felt right at home.
For starters, I was blown away by the incredible speed at which the game is played. Even though I had watched "Jeopardy!" for decades, I never really considered the pace of the show.
I would have 61 clues to deliver for every game. Thirty for the first round, 30 more for "Double Jeopardy!" and then one "Final Jeopardy!" clue. When I did the math for a half-hour show, accounting for things like commercial breaks and interviews with the contestants, I calculated I needed recite a new clue roughly every 15 seconds. In order to accomplish that, I had to be in constant control, keeping everyone focused and moving the show along.
One more thing: The goal was to tape five shows a day. That is 305 clues. One every 15 seconds.
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It's on here in 90 minutes. 🕖
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