Jeopardy

HERE is a game in which the players have to find the correct question to the answer given! Jeopardy is based on a popular television game show by the same name. The game show was the brainchild of Merv Griffin and it went on to become Amer i c a ’s fa vo u r i t e quiz s h ow.

SPARKLER The Great Loss

THE Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov did not care for wordly honours. One day his wife learnt that her husband had been passed over for a coveted university job and that a less talented man had been given the position.

She burst into his laboratory where he was conducting an experiment on some butterflies and tearfully gave him the news.

“Leave me alone,” said Pavlov, dejectedly. “A real tragedy has occurred. All my butterflies

Subsequently, the Parker Brothers and games pioneer Milton Bradley teamed up with a toy manufacturing company to publish the board version of the popular show in 1964.

The game has three rounds of play and the stakes increase with every round. Players have to find the questions to 30 answers based on h i s t o r y, ar t, pop culture, enter tainment, science, spor ts and current affairs. The game is peppered with sufficient clues and value tabs to keep the fun quotient up. Value tabs can be used like bets when a player is confident of being right. If the player answers correctly or rather poses the correct question, he can claim the points on the value tab that he has placed.

This game can be played by 2-6 players and the age range is 8 years and above. are dead and here you are worrying over a silly trifle.”

Pavlov, however, went on

Nobel Prize in medicine and

1904.

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