History Main / JeopardyIntelligenceTest

* The ''{{Ultimate X-Men}}'' version of Doug Ramsay got into a private school for mutants due to his smarts, exemplified by his record-breaking streak on ''Jeopardy!''.

** It won.

* An ex-con in JodiPicoult's ''Salem Falls'' does this every night. He started doing it to protect himself from PrisonRape by making a bet with the other convicts that he could always beat the scores of the televised contestants.

A device employed by writers to demonstrate that a character is particularly intelligent or knowledgeable. A character (often the TVGenius) will be shown watching a game show on television and instantly blurting out the correct answer to every question. May be played for laughs if the [[{{QI}} questions are obscure and esoteric to the point of absurdity]]. In some cases, this leads to the character being urged by his friends to apply as a contestant on that show.

In America, the game show is most likely to be ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', as it has garnered a reputation for being the most difficult of the popular game shows, not to mention because of its distinctive, relatively fast-paced game structure. In the United Kingdom, the notoriously difficult, long-running ''UniversityChallenge'' fills this role.

* In one episode of the fourth series of ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Moss participates in the show ''{{Countdown}}'' and keeps winning, despite crazy odds, by using amazingly obscure words like "tnetennba".

* This is done with the hero of Creator/StephenKing's "The Moving Finger". In the original story, he was actually watching ''Jeopardy!'', but in the ''Series/{{Monsters}}'' adaptation, it was a generic quiz show.

* In ''Diner'', Kevin Bacon's character [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wXkItoqHew sits in front of a TV and aggressively snaps out answers to College Bowl questions, marveling at the dim-wittedness of the contestants]].

* ''White Men Can't Jump'': Later, Gloria appears on the show and becomes a five-day champion.

* In one episode of the fourth series of ''The IT Crowd'', Moss participates in the show ''{{Countdown}}'' and keeps winning, despite crazy odds, by using amazingly obscure words like "tnetennba".
* On one episode of ''Alright Already'', Carol watches an earlier airing of ''Jeopardy!'' so that when she watches the same episode later in the day she can impress her boyfriend by knowing all the answers.

* On ''CougarTown'' Grayson and Ellie are left wondering why Laurie beats them handily at bar trivia. Apparently it's because she watches so much Jeopardy. And she cheats.
* Dorothy in TheGoldenGirls got into one of these and nailed every question. Unfortunately, the boost to her ego turned her into an InsufferableGenius, and she wasn't called back for the actual show since she wouldn't be any fun for the viewers to watch.

* This is done with the hero of Creator/StephenKing's "The Moving Finger". In the original story, he was actually watching ''Jeopardy!'', but in the ''{{Monsters}}'' adaptation, it was a generic quiz show.

* Inverted in ''SlumdogMillionaire'', in which doctorate holders do not succeed at the quiz show, while Jamal — a moderately intelligent lower-class boy — learned almost all the answers through his life.
** As opposed to learning the answers not in his life?

* Inverted in ''SlumdogMillionaire'', in which doctorate holders do not succeed at the quiz show, while Jamal — a moderately intelligent lower-class boy — learned all the answers through his life.

* One of the old men does this in the "Kick the Can" segment of ''TwilightZoneTheMovie''.

** To the point that he's giving the right questions ''before the answer has even been revealed''.

* Armed Forces Network had an ad of two guys watching ''Jeopardy!'' at night with one of them getting all the answers correct. The other guy wasn't amused. This ad meant to tell there's an alternate station for people living in the Atlantic zones who can watch during the day. Atlantic channel has the exact same programs as the Pacific. These two live in the Pacific region watching ''Jeopardy!'' on Atlantic network at night(one had already watched it on Pacific).

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* The ''{{Ultimate X-Men}}'' version of Doug Ramsay got into a private school for mutants due to his smarts, exemplified by his record-breaking streak on ''Jeopardy!''.

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* Parodied in ''[[ShesAllThat She's All That]]'', where the dad gives answers that are obviously wrong.

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* This is done with the hero of StephenKing's "The Moving Finger". In the original story, he was actually watching ''Jeopardy!'', but in the ''{{Monsters}}'' adaptation, it was a generic quiz show.

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* One ILoveLucy episode got kicked off after Ricky proudly announces all the right answers while listening to "Mr. And Mrs. Quiz" on the radio. Lucy then finagles them an invitation to the show, whereupon Ricky admits he was merely at the studio earlier while it was being taped. Naturally, he gets in a oneliner in the process:

* In ''{{Seinfeld}}'', George becomes a genius by abstaining from sex. [[SubvertedTrope Jerry asks whether it's a rerun]], [[DoubleSubvertedTrope but it's not]].

* Parodied in one ''{{Friends}}'' episode: Joey is watching ''WheelOfFortune''. He laughs at a player, who can't solve a puzzle with the clue "_OUNT RUSH_ORE". He yells to Chandler, "It's easy! Count Rushmore!"

* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons''. When the host asks which German leader gave his name to the capital of North Dakota, Homer yells "Hitler!"