I was on in 1967 in the Art Fleming years. I came in second because I froze and did not bet enough money on Final Jeopardy - Category : Languages. Answer: The meaning of the sign on Roman fences “Cave Canem.” Of course I knew the answer. Damn!
But I did win enough to pay for my husband’s first semester law school tuition. Of course we’re divorced now.
My Dad was on the show in '69, '70, or '71. (I was a child)
2nd place.
Yo. 1996. Led after DJ after a lot of buzzer problems, missed FJ q and the returning champ didn’t. Cal, it took me 3 years of going to AC before they called.
Why don’t we trade our killer q’s? I have almost never come across anyone else who got my FJ, except for my 2 opponents.
Category: South America
“Fifteen percent of this country’s population is of Javanese descent”.
Doo-de-doo-doo, doo-de-doo …
I am going to guess, What is Columbia? Is Javanese a hint or a misspelling? I am guessing a misspelling but it made me think of coffee and what else but Columbian Coffee.
Shocked if I am right though.
What is Guyana?
Woodrow Wilson was remarried in office.
I’m kind of surprised by how many of us have been on the show. I’s got me wondering if any of us faced one another!
I was on three times in '97.
Yup, Woodrow Wilson was the (theoretically) easy one. The other was…either Tyler or Polk…I can’t believe I’ve forgotten.
The day after my show aired, my bus driver recognized me. My fifteen minutes of fame.
Wait a minute, you said go ahead and ask me above and now you say yoou’ve forgotten! For shame 
Oh wait. elvisl1ives was really asking about the Javanese wasn’t he? Stupid me just assumed he meant Japanese. I guess that is why I’ll never be on Jeopardy.:smack:
I sticking with Columbia anyway.
Was on in '97, the second week after they started the new, dumber, questions and the lavalier mikes. Came in 2nd - I never could time the button right, even in practice. I theoretically became able to win on the very last question before FJ, which we both missed. (The third contestant went into FJ negative.) My opponent was on his fifth game, the fourth of the day, and he was a lot faster on the button (and younger) than me. I did lead at the first commercial though. BTW, I qualified the first time I tried, and got called only about six weeks later.
They actually reran the show. We cleared the board on both rounds, which they producers like. Alas, you don’t get another prize. 
Sorry for being away … it’s Surinam. Alex made a big point of explaining the Dutch colony connection - which was obvious as soon as it was mentioned. He’s a dick.
Oh, just to add to my threadbare credentials, I once played a College Bowl tournament emceed by Art Fleming, who by then was a newscaster in St. Louis. He and his wife were both friendly and gracious. Somewhere, I have a picture of Art pretending to choke me - gotta dig that out and put it with my pic of Regis Philbin pretending to dope-slap me.
Has the SD been on Jeopardy? Like maybe the answer was “How many forums are there on the SD message board”
My place of work was recently a Jeopardy category.
Yes. The answer was “This member has the most posts on the SDMB.”
Nobody got it.
I was on the show in 1984, the second week the newer version with Alex Trebek aired.
I lost to the very first five-time undefeated champion in her 5th game.
My friend Larry, who is much better than me and told me about the auditions for the as-yet unaired show when he came out to LA a month before I did to watch the 84 Olympic Games, was on the first week. Larry won two games before losing to that same woman (her first of the five wins). If he had thought of “billion” quicker to the daily double he bet aggressively on (smallest number beginning with the letter “B”) I might have won when I got on. Oh well…
Some time later that same friend got on a show called The Challengers, hosted by Dick Clark. My friends and I helped “prepare” Larry for the show a couple of times by going over stuff from trivia books, and one of my other friends, Mark, was quite good in his own right. When Larry went on to win $88,000 on The Challengers (and in the days before Millionnaire went on this was a lot of money for a game show), Mark felt he would do well on Jeopardy if he could get on, and I agreed to “coach” him to get on the show in exchange for 10% of his winnings.
Mark went on to become a five-time undefeated Champ, winning what was then the third highest total in Jeopardy history of $84,000.