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Topic: Game shows

Mayim Bialik hosting "Jeopardy" (CBS Media Ventures)

Why "Jeopardy!" fired host Mayim Bialik

Joy Saha
The author with Alex Trebek on the "Jeopardy!" set. (Salon/Courtesy Jeopardy Productions, Inc.)

Why does "Jeopardy!" still haunt me?

Steve Moulds
The author with Alex Trebek on the "Jeopardy!" set (Courtesy Jeopardy Productions, Inc.)

Why does "Jeopardy!" still haunt me?

Steve Moulds
Levar Burton (Getty Images)

LeVar Burton bags his new hosting gig

Joy Saha
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Jeopardy contestants James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter (ABC/Eric McCandless/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jeopardy contestants can't ID Schiff

Matthew Rozsa
"Jeopardy!" champions Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter, right, look on as an IBM computer called "Watson" beats them to the buzzer to answer a question during a practice round of the "Jeopardy!" quiz show in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. It's the size of 10 refrigerators, and it swallows encyclopedias whole, but an IBM computer was lacking one thing it needed to battle the greatest champions from the "Jeopardy!" quiz TV show - it couldn't hit a buzzer. But that's been fixed, and on Thursday the hardware and software system named Watson played a competitive practice round against two champions. A "Jeopardy!" show featuring the computer will air in mid-February, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP)

Think debates are dull? Thank game shows

Michael J. Socolow - The Conversation
Alex Trebek (Getty/Gregg DeGuire)

Trebek recovering from pancreatic cancer

Matthew Rozsa
"Paid Off with Michael Torpey" (truTV)

Paid Off: Gaming our student loan crisis

Melanie McFarland
Alex Trebek (Getty/Emma McIntyre)

Alex Trebek has brain surgery

Rachel Leah
Alex Trebek (AP/Seth Wenig)

"Jeopardy!"'s "stay woke" fail

Alessandra Maldonado
(Getty/Sean Gallup)

Facebook TV ignites civil war

Katie Serena
Japanese sex shows will have you scratching your...head.

Maria Loreto - The Fresh Toast

Prachi Gupta
(Vince Bucci/invision/ap)

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta
Ryan Seacrest (AP/Evan Agostini/NBC)

The "Survivor" of game shows

Neil Drumming
"Rupaul's Drag Race" contestants Roxxxy Andrews, Alaska, Jinkx Monsoon (Logo/Mathu Andersen)

Social media picks a drag star

Daniel D'Addario
(Via Shutterstock)

And the answer is: Matt Lauer?

Ej Dickson
Chuck Woolery (AP)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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