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I understand that this might make Jeopardy less fun for the audience, but I feel it would be a better test of trivia instead of buzzer timing.

Other game shows work that way as well, and it has its own degree of fun for the audience. For instance, the contestant buzzes in and answers after a few words of the question, gets the answer wrong, the host is grinning like a possum, and after they read the next part of the question, it makes the contestant's answer even more hilariously wrong in context.

University Challenge in the UK is a great example of this.

And as a bonus, the host may grin like a possum when the answer is correct, too. That happens on trivia questions, such as on winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. Contestants are supposed to be British students, know their Shakespeare and recognize 13th century music from four notes played, even if they are studying, say, analytic chemistry. You may get a snide remark "Aren't you ashamed to know that?"

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