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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJEOPARDY! Showing reruns from the 80's. Weird $75,000 money rule.
The money rule is that if a contestant wins over $75,000 (only 5 games back then) the network requires that the player donate anything over that mark to a charity of their choice.
Next week is Best of Celebrity Jeopardy
https://tvline.com/2020/07/16/jeopardy-retrospective-series-classic-episodes-reruns-alex-trebek/
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JEOPARDY! Showing reruns from the 80's. Weird $75,000 money rule. (Original Post)
underpants
Jul 2020
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Some kid from Yale was on last night. He knew more than I did at that age.
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2020
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)1. Some kid from Yale was on last night. He knew more than I did at that age.
At least about Jeopardy's topics.
Dem2theMax
(9,654 posts)2. I used to be able to answer a lot of the questions on Jeopardy.
I don't know if the questions are getting harder, or I'm getting older. But now most of the time I sit here and I say
rurallib
(62,451 posts)4. i think questions are harder these days
Seems like contestants are much more knowledgable also.
The tournament of champion questions are really tough.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)3. I remember that rule! I remembered that cop too
Mister Ed
(5,944 posts)5. If they get into the early 1990's, I'll be able to see myself.
I didn't do all that great, though. Only won one game.
underpants
(182,904 posts)6. Damn that's still impressive
Congrats.