Sony Pictures Television (SPT) announced today the launch of JEOPARDY! Bar League, an exciting new way for fans to experience America’s Favorite Quiz Show® in a social and live setting. For knowledge junkies who crave a competitive and intellectual challenge, JEOPARDY! Bar League offers an exclusive, live, team-based experience that combines the prestige of JEOPARDY! with the fun, laid-back atmosphere of a favorite local bar trivia night. A limited first-run will begin this December to conclude SPT’s Diamond Celebration Campaign honoring JEOPARDY!’S 60th birthday this year. JEOPARDY! Bar League will roll out nationally in 2025.
To bring this vision to life, SPT has partnered with Geeks Who Drink, the nation’s top bar trivia operator, and TimePlay, a leader in interactive entertainment technology. Powered by TimePlay’s cutting-edge technology, JEOPARDY! Bar League will allow teams of quizzers to engage with the game in real time, using their mobile devices to respond to clues, track their scores, and see live leaderboards within their bar, and subsequently across the nation next year. Experienced, energetic hosts from the Geeks Who Drink network will guide teams through a wide range of real JEOPARDY! clues and categories, ensuring that players enjoy the same high-energy and professional experience they’ve come to expect from Geeks Who Drink trivia nights.
“Creating JEOPARDY! Bar League with our partners at TimePlay is the next step in the evolution of the JEOPARDY! format,” said Suzanne Prete, President, Game Shows, Sony Pictures Television. “This first-of-its-kind interactive game reflects our quiz show’s durability and adaptability, giving fans an exciting new way to engage and experience gameplay while also growing our legacy brand’s fandom.”
“Bringing JEOPARDY! out of the studio and into the real world is a major focus for us at the show,” said JEOPARDY! Executive Producer Michael Davies. “We already know that many people, including me, watch and play along with our show in bars, and we know that many of our contestants come from the thriving culture of bar trivia, so it seemed only natural for us to combine these elements into JEOPARDY! Bar League.”
“For nearly as long as JEOPARDY! has been on air, pub trivia has brought communities together”, said Oren Rosen, CEO of TimePlay. “It’s a privilege for TimePlay to use our platform and expertise to create an all-new, social, immersive, and interactive JEOPARDY! experience in bars across the country.”
“Bringing live-hosted pub trivia events to life is in our DNA,” said Bryan Carr, CEO of Geeks Who Drink. “The vast Geeks host network is excited to bring JEOPARDY! Bar League to bars nationwide.”
To further enforce the connection between JEOPARDY! Bar League and the venerated quiz show, winners of future tournaments will have the opportunity to qualify to become contestants on the televised version of JEOPARDY!.
For more information, please visit Jeopardy.com/BarLeague.
JEOPARDY!, America’s Favorite Quiz Show®, made its network debut on March 30, 1964, and honoring this milestone with a 60th Diamond Celebration in 2024. Now in its 41st season in syndication, JEOPARDY! is the top-rated quiz show on television. The show has won a total of 45 Emmy® Awards, holds the Guinness World Records® title for the most Emmy® Awards won by a TV game show, and received a Peabody Award for ‘celebrating and rewarding knowledge’. JEOPARDY! is produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company; it is distributed domestically by CBS Media Ventures and internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution, both units of Paramount.
For more information about JEOPARDY!’s 60th Diamond Celebration, please visit https://www.jeopardy.com/about/60th-diamond-celebration.
(Source: Sony)
