Jeopardy - is there any other show where the winner truly earns it?

You do have be really good at trivia to win Jeopardy, but there is a ton of luck in Jeopardy between the buzzer, daily doubles and final Jeopardy.

yeah the literature and old century categories are what really makes it tough IMO.

Takes knowledge and skill (when to hit the buzzer... supposedly if you hit it too quick it blocks you out for a second, allowing the next person to get in).

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You do have be really good at trivia to win Jeopardy, but there is a ton of luck in Jeopardy between the buzzer, daily doubles and final Jeopardy.

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Sometimes I wonder what kind of procedures they have to make sure the buzzers are all equally timed and calibrated.

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(when to hit the buzzer... supposedly if you hit it too quick it blocks you out for a second, allowing the next person to get in).

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Buzzing in too early only blocks you for the next quarter of a second. Some discipline with a buzzer-like substitute while watching at home is enough practice.

Not a big deal at all, especially compared to daily doubles and the categories, the final category in particular.

My MIL thinks I am the smartest person she has ever known. She comes down from Tennessee and stays with us for a week a couple of times a year. I always record a Jeapordy episode before she arrives and memorize the answers. I will turn it on at the time the real show comes on and say "Nana, come in the living room....Jeapordy is about to start." She usually gets to the couch during the intro period. I will answer every question correctly and she is in always in awe. She might get one right the whole show because she is pretty ignorant. She begs me to audition and I have heard her talk to her friends in Tennessee on the phone and claim that I am a walking encyclopedia. I just laugh my arse off and don't have the heart to tell her the truth now after several years of pulling the wool over her eyes.

I was watching Wheel of Fortune recently where one lady got almost the whole puzzle solved before hitting bankrupt, then the next lady spun once and got like $400 and solved. The puzzle was a prize puzzle for like a multiple vacation bounce all over Europe worth like $12,000. Nobody else could catch up after that.

I see people clearly frustrated with the buzzer all the time in jeopardy.

That seems like it might screw over people who know the most.

It's all about performing under pressure. The guy who posted above you choked under pressure and couldn't do the buzzer. Probably got real spastic with the thumb because of anxiety. You are either a gamer or not. He was not.