On the show's January 8, 1988 episode, Patrick Quinn won $55,000 in the bonus round, the largest one-day total in the show's history. Quinn stayed on the show until January 13, and won a total of $58,600, one of the ten best totals in the show's history. However, a viewer in Anchorage, Alaska called the United States Secret Service and reported tha
during Kids Week on "Jeopardy," middle school student Thomas Hurley proudly and correctly answered the final "Jeopardy" question with "What is the Emancipation Proclamation." Unfortunately, Hurley wrote the correct answer but made a crucial error by misspelling "Emancipation." He added an extra "T." Hurley lost $3,000 as a result of his answer and
In 1978, one of these bait acts, two teenage girls referring to themselves as "Have You Got a Nickel", made it onto the show. Their act consisted of the girls sitting cross-legged on the stage floor and, as the song "I'm in the Mood for Love" played, they each began eating a Popsicle in a manner that suggested they were performing fellatio on the f
A couple who lost prize money while participating on the game show "Million Dollar Money Drop," sued the producers of the show, accusing them of "trick questions." When Andrew and Patricia Murray appeared on the game show in 2010, they were told they answered the question, "What is the most common password?" incorrectly. While the couple believed
Paul Michael Larson (May 10, 1949 %u2013 February 16, 1999) was a contestant on the American television game show Press Your Luck in 1984. Larson is notable for winning $110,237 (equivalent to $250,000 in 2015) in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show. He was able to win by memorizing the patterns used on th