Correcting everyone like the legend he is 😂

“GENRRRE”

This *GENRRE*

Good times

Agreed, he always was very good at that in his time hosting.

At least he formulated his retort in the form of a question.

In fairness to the audience heckler, Trebek was literally about to let the theme music and credits start right before the interruption.

@@JamesLacerenza But Trebek says "Until next time on Jeopardy, what is the answer? The answer..." right before the heckler shouts "What's the answer?" Presumably he was about to tell us the answer.

@@DueySR We all knew what the answer was. It was the question that had yet to be revealed .

its already been 2 weeks? what a loss

Yep. Miss him very much already. He lived a long meaningful life.

We lost Alex, yet we still have to deal with Pat Sajak. God dammit.

@@laraweinberg7635 yeah... what a contrast in personalities.

@@mbdg6810 dammit isn't a swear but ok

That makes more sense. Even Trebek confused “answer” for “question” so clearly they weren’t in the swing of things. Nowadays, almost always someone bets to leave themselves at least one dollar.

If Merv Griffin was in the studio, I'll bet he was wondering if it was such a good idea to revive this show at that time.

No, it wasn't the first episode of jeopardy was in the 1960's.. If you mean Trebek's second episode ever, then I think your actually right

@@CosmicHippopotamus Well...NO. The champion "amost always" bets to have one dollar MORE than either of the other opponents. It's such basic math now, J! fans are STUNNED when somebody screws it up....

What is it about the date Sept. 11? Day of disasters!

The crowd was dying for the answer

@@alexpollock6932 You mean for the question!

@@alexpollock6932 we all were.

Alex almost closed the show without revealing the question !

The atmosphere was originally more raucous and lively like other game shows in the first season, they actively encouraged audience participation and Trebek kept trying to stir up excitement too until they decided a more cerebral style would help it to stand out and work better.

But then HE didn't phrase his response in the form of a question and just said "January 1, 1901".

i hope i do better next weekend on the price is right - ight-ight.

I was tense. I was nervous. I guess it just wasn't my night!

RIP boxes of Rice A Roni

I lost on Jeopardy, baby! 🤣

“YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY, SIR!”

Yeah, give a show at least 2-3 years before releasing home editions, whether they be board games, video games, or handheld (beginning in 1995 with Tiger Electronics).

Ikr

@Victor Charles a.k.a. VicGChad07 Don't you mean 1989? Softie was long gone before GameTek was.

Maybe if they looked in Don Pardo's old locker, they could find some leftover "Compton's Pictured Encyclopedias."

A years worth of Rice-A-Roni

He should've wagered only $500.

@@brodie2005thegamer 501 technically but yeah fr

Stupid strategy.

lmaoo ikr just wager $501

Hell, if he had only wagered 9499, he'd return as he'd have $1.

Probably has OCD

@@Ibhenriksen Or CDO. That's like OCD only it's alphabetized.

Alex: You mean, what is the question.

The angry guy probably forgot that there was no year zero, and so he likely thought "1900" was correct. Since the calendar starts with the year 1, the new centuries (and new millennia) always end with 1 as well. I pointed that out to several friends who were having "Y2K' celebrations in 2000 thinking they were ushering in a new millennium, and one of them replied "You're correct, as usual, but you'll miss all the parties."

@@camilo1455 You didn't get any invitations? How sad.

It's not dumb because the wagers are made secretly before the answer is revealed.

@@JacobAllen918 even so. best strategy is to cover double the dollar value of the one in second place.

Gary, I know what you mean. I guess they were still getting their sea legs on that second episode!

There was also a 5 show limit too

Maybe he was just greedy.

I think it happened in part because it got conflated with the y2k bug.

Actually many people pointed out that the 21st century didn't start until 2001 but nobody cared

What's annoying is decades are the same. But in 2019 everyone was doing their "end of the decade" recaps even though there was an entire year left. Gets even more confusing when people refer to decades. Like is 1980 still technically the 70's? It is part of that decade. Food for thought.

Hey, that's Cliff Clavin's question!

Cheers!

I loved that episode

LOL! Oh, Cliffy!

The classic episodes are all we have left now of the late, great #JeopardyKing. Alex Trebek passed away early Sunday morning at home , surrounded by his beloved wife and family, after courageously fighting a battle against the CURRENTLY incurable, pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years young! R.I.P. Alex, and thanks for the memories! (He finished taping his final hosting episodes just 2 weeks ago, and they will be aired around Christmastime.)

And on just the second show of his tenure, nonetheless.

I think I read somewhere a contestant talking about his experience on the show that same taping day. Apparently there were several technical problems so it ran late, that coupled with the triple 0 put Alex in a foul mood by the time his show was being taped.

Right? That’s what I thought.

Well I certainly thought that but I couldn't figure out what the trick was in time.

I thought there was a trick, too, but only because Jan. 1st, 1901 seemed too obvious. How did they not know this? Where were they educated?

@@mickeyrube6623At least one of them but I learned it on Seinfeld, No year 0

I knew it was probably wrong but not _why_ it was wrong. One could be tempted to say 20th century started in the year 2000, so maybe they thought they already nailed that common "oops" mistake. It's also a sort of arbitrary thing here. mathematically they were all absolutely correct. They are only wrong historically, because for no good reason we historically started counting at year 1, not year 0... whatever, it's interesting. Surprised I had never heard of it before, and I'm mid-50s, pretty well educated or so I thought. Haha.

Double over! 😬

A triple stumper or a "triple overwager"!

I think they didn't want to.

Scar:Ahahahahahahahahahahah! Alex Trebek:I dommantion Scar is the new Jeppardy champion

Or the Wheel of Fortune *"BANKRUPT"* sound effect...

the same thing happens the year before decades begin as well

Because people are stupid. They all welcomed the new millennium in 2000. I've tried explaining to people, but they think I'm the stupid one. I ask what was the first year, they think about it say year 1. I say ok then they first century lasted until the END of year 100. The second century started in 101, then 201, etc etc. They still try to reason and tell me I am somehow wrong because everyone celebrated the century in 2000. I just smh and walk away.

@@brianm6117 Good explanation! I consider myself fairly well educated, but I was wrong as well.

@@brianm6117 technically, a new decade, century, or millennium begins whenever we decide it does. It's just a set number of years.

@@scottbecker4367 Yes, its a set number of years. If the first century was 100 years then it went from year 1 to year 100. There is no technicality in those numbers.

Yes. I believe the reason they started enforcing the no talking rule was because there is a time limit on the game. Nowadays the games go faster. When the audience was talking that slowed down the game quite a bit.

The first few episodes had audience over-reaction, IMO. Every correct question received applause, and every incorrect question brought about sighs & moans. It was probably smart to have the audience refrain from applause aside from Daily Doubles and going into & out of commercials and the show itself.

@@jehobden it became more like a chess match

It reminds me of watching the British parliament on BBC.

@@jehobden I always liked the applause when a contestant swept a category too. Alex would cue it by saying something like “you know your 18th century history!”

@Andrea Reyes 🥰

Me too.

Don't feel bad. I thought that too.

Luckily I remembered all the discussion from when 2000 rolled around about how the 21st century did not start until 2001. I got it right.

just think... the first century started on year 1 not year 0.

@Andrea Reyes nobody cares

@@AlexMaxwell2000 Maybe you don't care, in which case, there's no need for boorish behavior!

They missed it like Newman; as Jerry pointed out: there was no year zero.

And it doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's the most powerful feeling in the world.

A lot easier since most of us have lived through 2000/2001. Still, yeah, they should have gotten it.

I beat Ken Jennings. Once. In one round. How good do you think that felt?

I’ve guessed the answer to Final Jeopardy correctly just based on the category, before seeing the clue, on a few occasions...it’s partially luck but still something which fills me with pride. 😅

@@doktarr beat me to it

A: This Canadian guy was taken down on Nov. 8, 2020 before retiring Jeopardy! Q: Who was Alex Trebek?

That would explain why betting strategy was utterly nonexistent!

Why is it a prank?

Learn Math with Brian Sapinski no clue

@@Manima108 I mean, I know why the answer is what it is, just look at the video I made in my other comment on this thread. And in fact, I can thank Jeopardy for teaching me this when several years after this moment, they did a similar Final J asking for the date that the 20th Century ended, and THAT time, everyone correctly wrote December 31, 2000, NOT 1999.

@@SapinskiMath And THAT is why I thought we were misled about Y2K being called the Millennium Bug, and thus, the start of the millennium.

how is it a prank

And yet in the months leading to the alleged millennium their were commemorations of that nonexistent year. Possibly because it justified 2000 as the beginning of a century. I can just imagine the thinking, "Now, if the first century is zero to ninety nine"....Because that's, of course, how people count...

looks like you'll be caught between the moon and New York City

Depends on what you mean, colloquial or historical. In Germany, and since taken over by the EU, both is correct, so it´d depend on how it´s phrased.

Yep and technically 2020 is 'considered part of the twenty teens decade and 2021 will start the 2020s. However culturally we generally start it at the zero.

Holz-who?

@Anthony Guarino I know he was born that year this month. It was sarcasm.

Actually nobody every said they were in year 1AD. The years AD weren't labeled until 525. Astronomical year numbering does have a Year 0, it being 1BC in the Julian Calendar. 2BC is known as -1.

Also makes sense that the year "1900" be part of the 19th Century even if that makes it the last year in its group. Once you have completed a full 1900 years in the common era, let the new century begin!

Just like these 3 players, nearly the entire country wrongly celebrated "the new millennium" a year early! The 1st millennium: 1-1000 The 2nd millennium: 1001-2000. The 3rd millennium: 2001-3000. Yet every TV network claimed that the new millennium started on January 1, 2000.

Which is mathematically ludicrous

Jeopardy! The classroom of America!

Both born and died on Saturdays.

It's amazing how many people don't get this. The same thing happened in 2000 when almost everyone was saying it was the 21st century and the second millennium. There was no year 0. 1+2000=2001.

@@seikibrian8641 that is so stupid, though. A human isn't born 1 year old. They have to live through a year before they become one year old. Why should it be any different for centuries? How can a calendar begin at year one when it hasn't been a year since the calendar began? I know people will say that it's the first year of the new calendar therefore it's year one, but a calendar that's centered around the birth of a person should be subject to the same laws as the life of the person it's centered around. A century is a hundred years, so the new century should begin when the number in the hundreds place of the year changes. If the 20th century is the 1900s then it should contain all of the days of the 1900s, not all of the days except the first 365 of them. I say that the contestants are right and it's the calendar that's wrong. Although what's REALLY wrong is the religion that forces everyone that they do regardless of whether or not they share the same beliefs as them, but that a whole other kettle of fish altogether. I still maintain that January 1,1900 should've been the right answer, but I suppose at this point it doesn't really matter anymore, does it? I still find it annoying, though...

@@justinmiles7265 "A human isn't born 1 year old. They have to live through a year before they become one year old." And a century has to "live" through one hundred years before it becomes a century. Just as a newborn is in its first year before it becomes one year old, so too with the calendar. A child is never "zero years old," and there was no "year zero."

@@seikibrian8641 What about the time between conception and birth? Is the child zero years old then? At what point does it actually become a child? Are you only pregnant with a fetus until you give birth? But aren't pregnant people referred to as being "with child"? I don't believe this calendar issue is as black and white as it's being made out to be.

@@justinmiles7265 "I don't believe this calendar issue is as black and white as it's being made out to be." You can "believe" whatever you want. If you want to believe that 2+2 does not equal 4, that's your choice. You'll be wrong, but that's on you.

Who is Don Pardo on Weird "Al" Yankovic's parody "I Lost on Jeopardy" of the Greg Khin Band early 1980s song "Jeopardy"?

@@thomthom6268 Correct! Select again

Yup

That's what Greg should have wagered instead of it all. #OneDollarRule

To be fair, this was probably before Cliff Clavin.

@@robertlunderwood Good catch! Yes, this was 1984, and the Cliff Clavin episode aired on January 18th, 1990. I have been told I have a strange sense of humor.

He didn't pull a Cliff Clavin here. Looking at the scores going into Final, he didn't have a runaway game like on the first show.

@macarion 1990 was the final year of the ninth decade of the century.

It's not that "technically" the 21st century (and the third millennium) didn't begin until 2001. It's factual.

Ronda Tepfer - Technically means factually. Technically, you are wrong.

Well, remember the Y2K hype? That's why we called it the Millennium Bug.

@@gameshowguy2000 But Y2K was a computer date issue, not the actual beginning of the 21st century. There was no year AD Zero. The common calendar begins with year 1, so each millennium starts with an X001.

Absolutely, hindsight is 20/20 no pun intended. I didn't learn about the whole "no year zero" thing and its implications on centuries until it became relevant, so most people in the 80s (myself included) would gave gotten that wrong. I hope Jeopardy! is still around in the 2080s so they can stump a generation who never witnessed a change in century.

It happened again in 2019

Thank u. Your comment was the first one I found that explained the question. No year o, of course.

At least they will get a year's supply of Ricearoni.

@Andrea Reyes Thanks. :)

Has Weird Al ever been on Jeopardy!? He would win.

I was confused when it came up. I thought "So Jeopardy used to be a show for morons?" Then the first guy got it wrong and I thought "I guess I'm a moron, too."

tolman33 The NEWMANIUM!

Who would want to relive this year?

insomniacsnorlax We can’t. We’d just wind up with more coronavirus cases.

Nononononononono. We need to get to 2021 to get out of this nightmare

I didn't mean pressing rewind. I am suggesting we should call next year 2020 and forget about this year and delete it from the database. Hope that clarifies things.

@@yakxattack Problem is, the curse is in the numbers. Any year called 2020 will be cursed

Exactly 17 years before the biggest Terrorist Attack in NYC

At Pentagon and Somerset County, Pennsylvania@@samchristie913

Jessica Barnes Alex became an American citizen in 1998.

George Master kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtaVddRpnsC4opc.html

@@jabarnes77 and sadly, we lost him 2 days ago to pancreatic cancer. 😢💔😭 R.I.P. Alex.....and thanks for the memories! #JEOPARDYKING

@@tiffanymorgan6562💙 ✨💙

There was a week before there was a month. A day before a year. And there was a second before all of them.

It really depends on what you want to call it. If you just referred to it as the "1900s century" versus the "2000s century" like they do with decades, there would be no issue at all. But "20th" and "21st" centuries are clearly defined as 1901-2000 and 2001-2100, respectively. There'd be no 20th century if it didn't include the year 2000.

@@kevincassidy7233 There was no year zero, and a century is a 100 year interval. Consequently all centuries begin on January 1 of the first year of each subsequent interval.

Then a split second even less after 12 midnight on Jan 1 1900 would in fact be in the 20th century. If there is no zero. Where do you start counting the first year? My brain hurts every time this comes up. What happened between BC and AD that missed 1 year??

Jac Cristoforo there is no missed year. We just define the year after 1 BC as 1 AD.

@@jcripp7974 It's not like babies where the first year is in months. The first year is called "1" through all 12 months. Now look at your fingers. How many do you have? 10. Your tenth finger belongs to you, not to another set of hands, right? So #10 ... all of it ... Belongs with #s 1 - 9. Your fingers represent a decade .. or represent a century ... And could also represent a millennium.

Funny. Except that the Cheers episode had not yet aired... And it's CLAVIN...

Exactly what I was thinking.

Within a couple of years, the contestants got a hang of wagering strategy

This was only the 2nd edition of Jeopardy! that Alex hosted. Things were still WAAAAAY early in how things would shake out for the show. You'd probably need to have a game show be on TV for at least a full season before things would start to round into form. And that's okay, because 'growing pains' are going to happen for any facet of human life, the ever-so-humble game show included in that. =P

@@RaginRonic And in addition, they implemented the rule to allow home viewers to play along: contestants could NOT ring in until Alex finished reading the clue.

Ragin' Ronic usually I’d agree but Jeopardy had been on for ten years as a daytime show.

Greg is now a distinguished college professor.

I watched most of the first season, and I was convinced at the time that they were deliberately ending the round once it got down to one clue unrevealed just so the choice of clue and amount would carry some weight.

@@camilo1455 Been a year, so can't recall for sure. Have you tried searching KZfaq?

@@JayTemple It was more because of the buzzer timing, more incorrect responses back then from early ring ins before the answer was fully read. The Fleming era didn't have a ton of completed boards either cause of the same.

Yeah!!!!!!!

Lmaooo I saw

Not this one apparently

I see

Yes 🤣🤣🤣

I decided to check the replies of comments that had them, and noticed this person. Should I be alarmed or laughing?

So you're one the day you're born? No, you're 0.

@@kiley3030 I see where you're coming from. Think of it as ordinal numbers, so at 0 you aren't 1, but you are in your first year, since the entire "first year" is from 0-12 months.

@@SusanatorBot On your 100th birthday you've lived a century. That ends a century and starts a new one

I'm shocked that all three got it wrong. It's not that hard. People should look at it this way: If you were born 01/01/1901, your hundredth year of life would start on 01/01/2000, and finish at midnight of 12/31/2000. 01/01/2001 would start your second century. A century starts at 01/01/01 and finishes at 12/31/00 midnight.

@@Bikebrh that's if you start at 1901. We do not start at 1 when we are born. We start at 0

I thought the response was January 1, 1900 also! But I did some research while the contestants were writing down their guesses! Shocked me also, because I sure as Hell thought that 1-1-2000 was the beginning of the 21st century

@@justrelax1539 Me too.

I still don’t understand the answer?

@@justrelax1539 The 20th century could not end until all 20 centuries or 2000 years where completed Jan. first is only the first day of the year. Dec. 31 is last. The year 2000 had to be completed. So Dec. 31 was the last day of the 20th century. All 20 centuries completed .

@@sherrysusan The year 1900 had to end in order for the 19 century to end. Petty simple. Same as the year 2000 ended at the same time the 20th century ended.

I remember my dad explaining to me that it actually started on Jan 1, 2001. So when I watched this clip I knew right away it was Jan 1, 1901.

As you know, there was no year, zero.

Don´t know the rules for US, but here in Germany it was the new millenium because both ways are correct here. One is historically, the other colloquial.

@@bowlchamps37 According to the Gregorian calendar, the first millennium A.D. was year 1 to 1000, the second millennium A.D. was year 1001 to 2000, and the third millennium A.D. is 2001 to 3000. You can celebrate a 100 years or a 1000 years of anything anytime you want to, but if you want to talk about the 20th century or the next millennium, the Gregorian calendar is used by most of the world. On Jan 1, 2000 people were actually celebrating the end of 1000s and beginning of the 2000s which is fine but it was *not* the next millennium according to the Gregorian calendar.

And the year 23 was in the first century so 123 was in the second century 2020 is in the 21st.

@@nmt3f That’s correct. 👍

It's easy when you realize the 1st century was year 1-100. There was no year 0.