How does jeopardy pay its contestants

In the case of Wheel of Fortune, when you win trips, the show allows you to find less expensive versions of the trips you win, thereby decreasing your overall tax bill. Jeopardy contestants pay their own travel, hotel and meal expenses when they go out to Los Angeles to be on the show. No, the Jeopardy quiz show is not staged. It is one of the most ethical and intelligent game shows on television. Receive a cash settlement instead of the prize.

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Screenshot taken by Megan McLeod from the website J! All three contestants, after all, passed the same very hard test to be there. Most of the contestants can answer most of the questions. But Jeopardy! Timing on the tricky Jeopardy! Here's how it works: the buzzers don't get activated until Alex is finished reading each question. If you buzz in too early, the system actually locks you out for a fifth of a second or so.

But if you're too late, the player next to you is going to get in first. Somewhere between too early and too late is a very narrow sweet spot, like swinging a tennis racket or a baseball bat. No, that's not right. The Jeopardy! No, that's not it either. All I know is, the more I thought about the timing, the less I could nail it. When I could somehow just Zen out and not think about what I was doing, I would do okay.

I don't know what you've heard, but we're just good friends. Actually, the contestants don't get much of a chance to chill with Alex. The ultra-tight Jeopardy! You don't see him until the second he steps out on stage. So, to most contestants, Alex remains a mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a Perry Ellis suit.

But after spending forty-plus hours on camera with the guy, I felt like I got to know him a bit. The first thing you notice is that the seriousness-to-the-point-of-pomposity thing that he does on air is mostly a put-on. In person, he's a lot looser, prone to little jokes, accents, snippets of song and even soft-shoe. Like Alex or dislike him, you have to admit that he has one of the toughest jobs in show business—reading 61 clues flawlessly while running a fast-paced game show is an amazingly difficult task—yet he's made it look easy, every weekday for the last two decades.

So ease up on the Trebek-hatin', y'all. I don't know where people get this idea, but I get asked this all the time. No, you don't see the categories until the second the viewers at home do. It only looked like I was on Jeopardy! Actually, Jeopardy! Alex changes his tie and presto! America is fooled into thinking it's a whole new day on Jeopardy! Typically they shoot ten shows in two-day chunks a couple times a month, so I spent that whole spring commuting from Salt Lake to L.