# Jeopardy! contestant back on after 10 years...wears same tie!

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**Created:** [October 14, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-contestant-back-on-after-10-years-wears-same-tie/513742 "2009-10-14T04:08:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-contestant-back-on-after-10-years-wears-same-tie/513742/21 "2009-10-16T18:15:38Z")

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My husband has and wears a few of my father’s ties, who would be 91 if he were alive. He would wear them more often if they were longer; my husband is 4’’ taller than my father was. I pitched all the nasty '70s and '80s polyester and kept the '40s and '50s silk.

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**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-contestant-back-on-after-10-years-wears-same-tie/513742/22 "2009-10-18T19:48:27Z")

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> [@Rack-a-Bones](#):
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> Empasis mine of course, but huh? Is this a Universal Rule of Life? If I was on the Newlywed, Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune 20 years ago, I couldn’t be on Jeopardy! today?
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> Also, how did you get on the show? I’m not interested myself, I’m just curious about the process. Do they do a tour and seek out contestants or do you have to go to them?

There’s no such rule. I’ve been on Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Win Ben Stein’s Money… each tryout I was asked (and answered honestly) about my previous show appearances.

I believe there is a rule about not being on two shows within one calendar year, in fact I’m certain of it because we did the math and I had my air dates written down. My show appearances were 1993, 2000, 2003, and 2005.

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-contestant-back-on-after-10-years-wears-same-tie/513742/23 "2009-10-19T00:29:33Z")

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What makes people think all game shows have the same requirements?

Some shows openly promote having recent game show winners on, others prohibit it. Producers have a lot of leeway in making their own rules as long as they aren’t found to be staking the deck or discriminating against a protected class.

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