The entertaining and invariably challenging television show Jeopardy! first aired in 1964 and currently attracts a reported 10 million viewers daily. Librarians can appreciate the enormous amount of reference research required to produce the show and will marvel at the fact that Billy Wisse, the show's editorial producer, has written 25,000 clues over almost two decades.Wisse explains, "The audience should react in one of three ways to a clue: 'Sure, I knew that,' 'Darn, I should have known that,' or 'I didn't know that and now I'm glad I do.'" U reviewer Donald Altschil-ler recently interviewed Wisse, the man one former Jeopardy! producer praised as one of the most informed people he has ever known.
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