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There is an incisive mathematical breakdown of the scoring over the course of a given episode.

Those breezy interviews that Trebek conducts with the contestants after the first commercial break? The site’s moderators transcribe them like they’re court records. Jeopardy!, now in its 36th season, celebrates the brain’s limitless capacity to carry inessential insight. Kurowski wins the day’s show, bringing her two-day earnings to $29,400. 15, 1991, Lois Kurowski, a doctoral student from Elkhart, Indiana, identifies the playwright Edward Albee as the answer to the $1,000 clue of “20th Century Personalities.” She also knows that Irma Rombauer printed The Joy of Cooking for $300, and that Zeus seduced Leda in the form of a swan for $600. On the fan-run J! Archive, a would-be scholar can click on any season, from any year, and bear witness to thousands and thousands of tabulated episodes. An exacting catalog of the countless number of times that Alex Trebek has shepherded us through categories of potpourri, of arcane word games, of 19th-century novelists whose names begin with the letter E. A dissertation-level study on how the show’s nightly trivia affected the ambient knowledge of the American mind. A holy site where any casual viewer of Jeopardy! can appreciate the profound weight of the program’s 36-year history.