Jeff Probst (Rock & Roll Jeopardy! - 1998)
You know him from Survivor and, well, Survivor, and a few years ago he had his own daytime talk show. However, before Jeff Probst was saying "the tribe has spoken," he was taking after Alex Trebek and reminding contestants that their responses need to be in the form of a question. From 1998 to 2001, Probst was the host of VH1's Rock and Roll Jeopardy!, a spin-off of "America's Favorite Quiz Show" where all of the answers and questions were based on music.
Rock and Roll Jeopardy! worked the same way as regular Jeopardy! only the contestants were very knowledgeable specifically in music trivia. The main differences were that, for the first two seasons, the game board comprised of point values and not dollar values, there were three new players on each episode and the winner took home a guaranteed $5,000 or a minimum of $5,000 once the dollar figure game board was introduced. This was the first time a Jeopardy! spin-off focused on one particular area of trivia. In 2014, Sports Jeopardy! premiered on the video streaming site Crackle.
From 2000 to 2001, Jeff actually was hosting both Rock and Roll Jeopardy! and Survivor at the same time, and it's sometimes hard to imagine Probst hosting anything else but Survivor. However, whether he was on an island in Borneo or in a California television studio, Jeff Probst was, and still is, an excellent host. What's great about Jeff's time behind the Rock and Roll Jeopardy! podium is that he didn't try to become Alex Trebek. Instead, he incorporated his own hosting style into the game. With a show like Jeopardy! that, at the time, was on for about fifteen years with an iconic host like Alex Trebek, it must have been hard for Jeff to branch out from what many viewers were expecting to see and to make this show his own. However, he was still able to accomplish the hard task, which is the mark of a great host. Jeff is such a natural and one of the best communicators on television today, which is why even before being known as the Survivor guy, he was killing it hosting the game show Rock and Roll Jeopardy!.
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