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Merv Griffin created the game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (or Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, depending on your local station). He was also a composer. He wrote the āThinkā music that plays during the final round of Jeopardy! Griffin estimated he made $70ā80 million from the royalties for that bit of music.
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