It's one of the most iconic game shows in TV history and it's one of the few that can actually teach you something, while testing your own knowledge of the world. "Jeopardy!" seems the perfect name for the quizzer that first came to NBC in the 1960s. But it turns out that wasn't what creator Merv Griffin originally wanted to call his answer-and-question show. 

He was working on an entirely different title, until NBC intervened. 

‘Jeopardy!’ wasn’t Merv Griffin’s first choice for the name of the show