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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: SuperMatch93 on May 15, 2018, 06:36:52 PM
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To anyone who remembers when Art Fleming hosted Jeopardy:
Was the term "true daily double" for betting it all used at that time, or did it only come into vogue in the current run?
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If memory serves, Fleming referred to situations where a player went all in, "A true daily double."
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I'm sure I'm the only person who doesn't know this, but was there originally only one Daily Double, hence the name?
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I'm sure I'm the only person who doesn't know this, but was there originally only one Daily Double, hence the name?
It was inspired by horse racing where typically there's a pair of races back-to-back where if you can pick both winners you win a larger prize. If it's a long race day (perhaps with ten events) there will be an early and a late double.
Since the game show as we know it existed in three rounds, the Jeopardy round with one double, and Double Jeopardy with two.
(EDIT: You would put down "$2 on the early double, 3 and 7," before the start of the first race of the two. )
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Supposedly, during the development stage, NBC mildly objected to the use of "Daily Double" due to its obvious association with real-world gambling, but nobody could think of a better term.
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In the test episode that Paley has, the Daily Double was a second question you received after you answered the first question. You did not know it was a Daily Double until you answered correctly. This was more in line with its name, since you got a second or double question. No idea if the early episodes did that as well or something that was thrown out before air.