Top 55 Jeopardy Quotes

As far as my sketches, I’ve always loved ‘What’s Up With That.’ It’s just a whole lot of fun, and I love ‘Black Jeopardy,’ too. Any kind of host capacity, I’m usually pretty good at.

The fact that I win and lose money all the time helps desensitize me, so I can write down $60,000 as the Final Jeopardy wager and not be trembling at the thought of losing that money.

We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

If ‘Mystery Train’ is my Nixon book and ‘Lipstick Traces’ my Reagan book, ‘Invisible Republic’ is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he’d done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don’t feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

When I finish as the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ I’m going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

As you evolve, you learn that wrestling is not necessarily about stunts or spots. You need to go out and show the audience that they can love you for the persona you are – not because of the risk you’re willing to take or the jeopardy you’re willing to put your body in.

Jeopardy!’ is a bigger deal than I realized.

One thing I never thought about in my big-company job? Cash flow. When your business has billions of dollars in revenue, you can make a lot of mistakes and still have a viable business. But in a startup, make a few hiring mistakes, and you can find yourself in real jeopardy fast.

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.

If we don’t have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

I tried out for ‘Jeopardy’ once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn’t make it.

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn’t consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

I always dreamed of working in an MLB front office and ruining baseball, but I have to settle for ruining ‘Jeopardy’ instead.

I believe the ‘Jeopardy!’ test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.

We’re loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

I’m biased, but I think ‘Jeopardy!’ is the best game around, and getting more eyeballs on it is great in my book.

You need to pick your spots and bet big when you identify them. That’s basically my ‘Jeopardy!’ strategy in a nutshell.

Watching ‘CSI: Miami’ is like watching ‘Teen Jeopardy!’ or doing the crossword puzzle in ‘People’ magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you’re not.

Taking action against a show because of one individual’s behavior could put hundreds of jobs in jeopardy.

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like ‘These two boys’ names are top 10 boys’ names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they’re both names of Jesus’ apostles.’ Now, obviously that’s not a knowable fact.

It’s real simple – we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It’s universal.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn’t ask me about something, I wasn’t about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

I am in awe of Ken Jennings’s accomplishments, as all ‘Jeopardy!’ fans are. Simply being compared to him is an honor.

No sense making plans to get a job or finish school at Johns Hopkins, which I just wasn’t getting anything out of. Life was waiting to go back on ‘Jeopardy!’

I’m seeing too much power being concentrated in the executive branch, and so our system of government is really in jeopardy, and more importantly, the overwhelming issue that we’ve had for a long time is money in politics. I see that problem getting worse.

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can’t know. And so it’s not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

Getting onto ‘Jeopardy!’ was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than ‘Jeopardy!’

In Chicagoland, they had afternoon ‘Jeopardy!’ and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would watch and it’s what got me interested in Jeopardy! and sports statistics at an early age.

Delaware’s firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

During the whole ‘Jeopardy’ experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. ‘Jeopardy’ tries very hard to keep their secrets.

The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors is not the reason why Chrysler is in jeopardy.

I always believe in truth. Sometimes I know truth others don’t. That puts me in a little bit of jeopardy sometimes.

The story I get the biggest kick out of is when my name and e-mail appeared on ‘Jeopardy’ a couple of years ago. My mother was a faithful viewer, and she said she was happy that they finally had an answer she knew the question to.

My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, ‘Jeopardy!’ champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on ‘Sesame Street’ by a chorus of Muppets.

I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on ‘Jeopardy!’ and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

Donald Trump represents a threat both to the party and to the country. I believe he makes the world far more dangerous, I believe he puts America’s economy in jeopardy. And his temperament is totally unsuited for the presidency.

It’s funny what actors take issue with. Some won’t do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won’t ever play anyone remotely unlikable – ‘Heroes only, please.’ Some won’t do violence. I have no such qualms.

If a man puts a lion’s family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn’t, but it’s going to fight.

I remember watching TV as a kid, and whenever there was some sort of jeopardy involving the hero, I could reassure myself that they were what I’d call a ‘can’t-die’ character, so everything would be OK.

The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students’ right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.

Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there’s a sense of jeopardy that’s lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don’t make sense.

If you’re receiving fewer assignments, this could be an indicator that there was a decision from upper management that you shouldn’t have as many responsibilities. Whether that means your employer has lost faith in you or that your job may be in jeopardy, this is a sign that you should start polishing up your resume.

I watch ‘Jeopardy!’ every night and ‘Wheel of Fortune’ follows. And every time I’m like, ‘Whoa, it’s still on! This is still happening!’

You wouldn’t think it would make a ton of sense, but I’ve been on Jeopardy! for over 20 years now, so it’s kind of like going home.

You know, another thing people don’t realize is that there’s a ton of luck in ‘Jeopardy.’

As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.

‘Jeopardy!’ contestant Ken Jennings’ winning streak has been nothing short of remarkable.

I think most people who bother to study ‘Jeopardy!’ game theory are going to arrive at similar conclusions about how to best play the game. Not everyone is going to take that step, of course.

Well, I refer to ‘Celebrity Jeopardy ‘ as the short-bus ‘Jeopardy,’ because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.

Easily the hardest ‘Jeopardy!’ categories to study in the kids’ section are the so-called ‘trashy’ pop culture ones.