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Encyclopedia > Jeopardy

This article describes the British horror/suspense television series. The American game show is entitled "Jeopardy!" (with an exclamation point). Jeopardy! logo (1994-1996) Jeopardy! is a popular international television game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also created Wheel of Fortune. ...


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Jeopardy was a television series running for three seasons beginning in 2002 on the BBC about a group of eight high-school students and their teacher who go from Falkirk, Scotland, to the Australian Outback to look for UFOs. They are all given camcorders to record any sightings, and the series (much like the Blair Witch Project) makes extensive use of jerky, handheld photography supposedly from those cameras. 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Falkirk is a town in Scotland, in the district of Falkirk. ... A typical outback scene, somewhere north of Coober Pedy. ... UFO can mean: Unidentified flying object United Future Organization, a Japanese-Brazilian electronic jazz band UFO, the rock band that previously featured Michael Schenker UFO, the Gerry Anderson TV series United Farmers of Ontario, a political party that formed the government in Ontario from 1919 to 1923 U.F.O... 8mm Camcorder mini-DV Camcorder Sony DV Handycam A camcorder is a portable electronic device (generally a digital camera) for recording video images and audio onto a storage device. ... The Blair Witch Project is a low budget 1999 horror film in which three young film students mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth after being stalked through the woods, lost and kept awake by an unseen antagonist. ...


The teacher and the Australian park ranger guiding them vanish early in the first season. The students become separated and rejoin each other several times, having experiences that they interpret as having extraterrestrial causes. In the final episodes, they are all reunited, and it transpires that the adults had been captured, and the strange events caused, by a bank robber who was attempting to recover the loot that had been hidden in the vicinity of the students' camp. They thwart the robber, and are awaiting rescue by helicopter when a group of blinding lights appear in the sky and they all disappear, leaving only their backpacks. Extraterrestrial, as an adjective, refers to something that originates, occurs, or is located outside Earth or its atmosphere. ... The worlds most popular helicopter, the Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...


Jeopardy now has three seasons.


Each episode is known for leaving viewers with a cliffhanger, and especially with the end of the most recent season, where the last shot is of one of the characters, Lucy, getting "red eye" (a rare alien disease that causes the group to dissapear one by one) and then it cuts to the credits.


"Red-Eye"


Red-eye is a disease the group picked up when they travelled back to Australia, after being abducted. It causes the group to become more stressed than usual, and inevitably get "red-eye" which causes their iris to turn red and they "split". A case in which they look as if they are two separate people for a split second.


Picture of "Red-Eye"


The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and filmed on location in both Scotland and Australia. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded the first season Best Children's Drama in 2002. Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Scottish Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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How To Win On Jeopardy (3916 words)
I estimate the typical Jeopardy contestant on the show would average around $24,000 if you adjusted for Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy and eliminated competition — in other words, if nobody were able to beat him or her to the buzzer.
Jeopardy is not going to ask about Li (unless they go in the direction of giving the name and asking for the empire, in which case it would be easy to guess), but Typhoid Mary — who remains a topic of interest — comes up all the time.
For instance, Jeopardy would never ask for the atomic number of the element fermium, but they would definitely expect you to know who Enrico Fermi is — so you'd be wasting your time and energy by learning all the atomic numbers when you could be learning about prominent physicists.
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