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====Finishing Double Jeopardy! with $0 (or less)====

Sometimes, contestants will finish Double Jeopardy! with either $0 or a negative score. If that happens, they are automatically eliminated from the game and not allowed to participate in the game's final round, Final Jeopardy! In this case, the contestant(s)contestants still receive [[consolation prize]]s, which ([[as of 2002]]) are $1,000 for third place and $2,000 for second place. In [[Celebrity Jeopardy!|Celebrity ''Jeopardy!'']], contestants are allowed to participate in Final Jeopardy! under all circumstances, and such contestants are granted nominal scores with which to wager for Final Jeopardy! (as the celebrity contestants are competing on behalf of charitable foundations, rather than personal gain).

Usually, it is only one contestant (if any) that getsis eliminated before Final Jeopardy! However, on rare occasions, two contestants have been disqualified from playing, leaving the first-place player to provide a question to the Final Jeopardy! answer alone. The last show where two contestants finished in the red aired on [[February 23]], [[2005]] during the [[Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions|Ultimate Tournament of Champions]] (only Jeff Richmond advanced to Final Jeopardy!)<ref>[http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=163 show #4718 from the J! Archive]</ref>

In the 1984 syndicated version, there has never been an instance where ''all three'' contestants finished Double Jeopardy! with $0 or less, thereby disqualifying everyone from Final Jeopardy! A three-way disqualification from Final Jeopardy! did happen at least once on the 1964 NBC version sometime between 1968 and 1975. During the commercial break between Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy!, an audience member suggested that they could simply replay the game (with different categories) as if the embarrassing result had never happened. But the staff onstage said that this was not permitted by NBC's rules. The time normally used to play Final Jeopardy! was filled with chitchat between Art Fleming and the contestants. For the following telecast, three new contestants were featured.<!--The individual who witnessed this as a member of the studio audience does not know if that episode was actually broadcast, but it probably was.-->