# UK Jeopardy! hosted by Stephen Fry

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** reality-or-game-show\
**Created:** [January 6, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-jeopardy-hosted-by-stephen-fry/995712 "2024-01-06T21:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-jeopardy-hosted-by-stephen-fry/995712/41 "2024-01-11T04:31:41Z")

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She’s looking into whether there’s too much sax and violins in popular entertainment.

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**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-jeopardy-hosted-by-stephen-fry/995712/42 "2024-01-11T12:42:38Z")

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> [@JacobSwan](#):
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> There was a limit of £6000 cash up until 1993 so a lot of prizes were consumer goods rather than cash. The infamous speedboat on Bullseye for instance.

I believe the BBC also has internal guidelines on not giving away excessive prize money, as it’s coming out of the license fee (taxpayers money). Obviously that doesn’t apply to commercial channels.

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**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-jeopardy-hosted-by-stephen-fry/995712/43 "2024-01-11T13:28:54Z")

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I’m just surprised they didn’t call it _The Great American Joking Show_.

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**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-jeopardy-hosted-by-stephen-fry/995712/44 "2024-01-11T14:31:49Z")

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Didn’t enjoy it. US Jeopardy is great because it’s fast paced and has big prizes. This has neither. Waste of time. And Stephen Fry commenting on every single question got incredibly old, incredibly fast. I wouldn’t have thought it possible to fuck up a format as simple as Jeopardy’s but I guess I was wrong.

Edited to add: in all fairness, the contestants share some of the blame as well. Maybe it’s just me, but a lot of the time they answer like they couldn’t give a shit.

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