Sometimes random thoughts pop into my head as I’m doing things throughout the day. Today, my dad was watching Jeopardy and there’s this guy who’s been on for a while and who’s won over a million. Which got me thinking: what if everyone on a certain episode of Jeopardy (let’s call it the Idiot Edition) all had negative scores? Out of scores of -300, -400, and -500, would the person with
-300 “win”? And if they did, would they have to pay the studio ?
Well, that was my RToTD. Clearly me thinking too much is dangerous…
No,. they wouldn’t have to pay, but if all three were negative there would be no Final Jeopardy. I saw that occur at least once in the Art Fleming era.
Well, the Jeopardy rules say that you can’t participate in Final Jeopardy with a negative score.
However, it’s never occurred (to my knowledge) that more than ONE player had a negative score, so I doubt that contingency plans for such a situation exist.
If two people have a negative score at the end of Double Jeopardy, then the third player, with the positive score, automatically wins, and is allowed to bet up to x-1 dollars in Final Jeopardy, where x is the amount the player has going in.
I have seen triple negatives at the end of Double Jeopardy once. Alex Trebeck took a glove out of his pocket, and slapped the three with the glove Moe Howard-style.
I haven’t watched the show in years but my college roommates and I used to be avid watched in the late 80’s. I saw a show where two out of the three had negative scores. The one guy left got to do Final Jeopardy alone. No, he didn’t bet everything.
I’ve never seen an episode in which 3 contestants had negative scores, but I HAVE seen an episode in which one contestant had zero and the other two had negative scores.
No, the guy with zero didn’t win. They brought in 3 new contestants the next day.
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