{"id":4742,"date":"2009-02-15T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:45:37","slug":"book-report-the-jeopardy-book-by-alex-trebek-and-peter-barsocchini-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/book-report-the-jeopardy-book-by-alex-trebek-and-peter-barsocchini-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Jeopardy Book by Alex Trebek and Peter Barsocchini (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book because it was $1 at St. Michael&#8217;s and because our family and I have recently become fixated on this show.  We watch it every night, and I took the online contestant test recently.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the book is a little underwhelming.  It was published in 1990, when the new show was 4 years old, so it&#8217;s a very high level gloss over the show.  A bit about Alex, a bit about contestants, something about how it&#8217;s taped, and then lots of trivia answers, mostly laid out like game boards so fewer questions would win more space.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there are some other books out there about the show that give a real insider&#8217;s view of the process, including a couple written by contestants.  I should check those out.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess it was an okay thing if you&#8217;re into the game show, but as I said, underwhelming.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0060965118&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book because it was $1 at St. Michael&#8217;s and because our family and I have recently become fixated on this show. We watch it every night, and I took the online contestant test recently. That said, the book is a little underwhelming. It was published in 1990, when the new show was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}