# Jeopardy History being made tonight 3/16/07 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-history-being-made-tonight-3-16-07/396187 "2007-03-16T12:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-history-being-made-tonight-3-16-07/396187/61 "2007-03-20T03:22:31Z")
> [@](#): > > The press releasse said it hasn’t happened in 23 years. The event you refer to happened on Trebek’s 2nd show, 23 years, 1 month and some-odd days ago. Wow! That’s depressing cause I remember watching that episode! I figured it had to have been a pretty early one, because it was the first _Trebek_ Jeopardy I ever saw. It was on late at night, I was flipping channels and all of a sudden here was this new, re-vamped Jeopardy show. I also remember it not only because all three contestants wound up with $0 but because they all bet everything on Final Jeopardy, they all got it wrong, they all gave the _same answer_, and most of all, because _I knew the correct answer!_ The question/answer was: The 20[sup]th[/sup] century began on this day. They each said, “What is January 1st, **1900**?” and I knew it was 190 **1** … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-history-being-made-tonight-3-16-07/396187.md?page=3)