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JEOPARDY

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEOPARDY  , a

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term meaning
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risk or danger of
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death, loss or other injury . The word, in
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Mid . Eng. juparti, jeupartie, &c., was adapted from O . Fr. ju, later jeu, and parti, even
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game, in
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medieval Latin jocus partitus . This term was originally used of a problem in
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chess or of a
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stage in any other game at which the chances of success or failure are evenly divided between the players . It was thus
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early transformed to any
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state of uncertainty .

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