History Main / JeopardyIntelligenceTest

* Him makes WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls take their SAT tests as part of the series of riddles he forces them to solve in "Him Diddle Riddle." Bubbles, whose SAT card was penciled in with a pattern of a flower, scored the highest.

* Played with in ''Film/GroundhogDay'': Bill Murray's character had seen that particular episode [[GroundhogDayLoop over and over again]]. To the point that he's giving the right question ''before the clue has even been revealed''.

* Played with in ''Film/GroundhogDay'': Bill Murray's character had seen that particular episode [[GroundhogDayLoop over and over again]]. To the point that he's giving the right answers ''before the question has even been revealed''.

* Homemade versions of the game are often used in schools to teach a particular subject usually to prepare students for tests.

* Phoebe does this in one episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons,'' '''"Simpson And Delilah"'''

--> ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons,'' '''"Simpson And Delilah"'''

* Phoebe does this in one episode of ''Series/{{Charmed}}''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Arthur and the Big Riddle" started off with Arthur correctly answering the riddles on the game show ''Riddle Quest'', including answering the final riddle before the reigning champion. At Buster's urging, he decides to go on the show himself.

* In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', George becomes a genius by abstaining from sex, and is shown watching ''Jeopardy!'' and answering every question correctly while solving a Rubik's Cube at the same time. Jerry asks if it's a rerun, but it's not.

* Inverted in ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'', in which doctorate holders do not succeed at the quiz show, while Jamal — a moderately intelligent lower-class boy — learned most of the anwser from first hand experience.

* An ex-con in Creator/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.
** His passion for the show [[spoiler:is key to getting the student he supposedly seduced to confess that she made the whole thing up.]].

* A ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' short on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' had Brain go on the quiz show "Gyp-Parody" in order to raise enough money for a device to TakeOverTheWorld. He gets every single question right, but bombs the final question and loses everything. Of course, the answer to the final question was [[TheHoneymooners Ralph Kramden]], which Brain would have known [[NotNowKiddo if he had listened to]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinky]] earlier in the episode.

* 5-time ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' champion Frank Spangenberg says he tried out on the show because of this trope. His New York City Transit Police Department (now the NYPD Transit Bureau) office would watch the show and put money into a pot, and whoever got the most correct responses won the pot. Frank was winning so often that his colleagues recommended he play for real.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', Cosmo and Wanda conjure up a set reminiscent of ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' to prove that Timmy "knows everything".

* An editorial cartoon from 1987 had then-president Ronald Reagan on ''WheelOfFortune''. The puzzle board was all exposed save for one letter: "GET TO THE _OTTOM OF THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR." Reagan: "Uh...is there a 'Q'?"

* Parodied in one ''Series/{{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!"

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

* The Watson computer made by IBM went on ''Jeopardy!'' to prove its intelligence.
** It won, beating Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most successful Jeopardy! contestants.

* This is one of [[Series/{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin's]] defining character traits. Comes full circle when he actually ''was'' on ''Jeopardy!'', [[spoiler:but he loses in the final round]].

* This is one of [[{{Cheers}} Cliff Clavin's]] defining character traits. Comes full circle when he actually ''was'' on ''Jeopardy!'', [[spoiler:but he loses in the final round]].

* 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:

* One episode of ''Series/BigBangTheory'' revealed that [[TheFaceless Mrs.]] [[NoIndoorVoice Wolowitz]] can correctly guess the answers to all ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' puzzles if told the topic and starting letters. As Howard put it:

->'''Quiz Announcer:''' ''Okay, the colors of the Italian flag are Red, White, and what?''\\
'''Bart:''' ''Blue!''\\
'''Homer:''' ''Yellow!''\\
'''Bart:''' ''Orange, Red,''\\
'''Patty:''' ''Green!''\\
'''Homer:''' ''Black, White, Green!''\\
'''Contestant:''' ''Green!''\\
'''Homer:''' ''I was right!''

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* DustinHoffman in ''RainMan''.
* MorganFreeman's character in ''TheBucketList''.
* Played with in ''Film/GroundhogDay'': Bill Murray's character had seen that particular episode [[GroundhogDayLoop over and over again]].
** To the point that he's giving the right answers ''before the question has even been revealed''.
* Parodied in ''ShesAllThat'', where the dad gives answers that are obviously wrong.
* In ''Film/{{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]].
* Inverted in ''SlumdogMillionaire'', in which doctorate holders do not succeed at the quiz show, while Jamal — a moderately intelligent lower-class boy — learned most of the anwser from first hand experience.
* ''Film/WhiteMenCantJump'': Later, Gloria appears on the show and becomes a five-day champion.
* One of the old men does this in the "Kick the Can" segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Saved}}'' where Mary's mother constantly gets the questions wrong throughout the movie until the very end, when she suddenly starts getting them right, and the answers lead her to an epiphany.

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* 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.

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* In one ''{{Shoe}}'' comic strip, one character is watching ''Jeopardy!'' and getting all the answers right, but at the end another character leans over and says, "What is 'rerun'?"
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'''s Jason was seen doing this at least once. Frustrated by all the contestants failing to answer a question and Alex Trebek's condescending response, he points a dart gun at the TV, asking "Who was Alex Trebek?"
* An editorial cartoon from 1987 had then-president Ronald Reagan on ''WheelOfFortune''. The puzzle board was all exposed save for one letter: "GET TO THE _OTTOM OF THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR." Reagan: "Uh...is there a 'Q'?"
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* FoxTrot's Jason was seen doing this at least once. Frustrated by all the contestants failing to answer a question and Alex Trebek's condescending response, he points a dart gun at the TV, asking "Who was Alex Trebek?"

* Him makes ThePowerpuffGirls take their SAT tests as part of the series of riddles he forces them to solve in "Him Diddle Riddle." Bubbles, whose SAT card was penciled in with a pattern of a flower, scored the highest.