Debut of Jeopardy!

Date: March 30, 1964 • Location: Washington, United States

Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, phrasing each response in the form of a question.