Alex Trebek Has Led a More Interesting Life Than All of Us

The Only Three-Way Tie in History

Throughout Jeopardy! history, there has only been one three-way tie. On March 16, 2007, all three Jeopardy! contestants answered the Final Jeopardy question correctly, successfully rounding out the game with identical scores of $16,000. All three contestants were welcomed back to play again.

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The More You Know

  • A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
  • You spend about 10% of the time you're awake blinking.
  • After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmark's Jewish population, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.
  • Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
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