Do you know how the score changes are decided in Jeopardy?

I'm a big fan of the game show Jeopardy and have watched it for as long as I can remember. One thing I have never been able to figure out though is how they decide how to change someone's score if it is decided later that their answer was incorrect. For instance, in tonight's episode, the answer to a $1000 question (or question to the answer if you're a stickler for the Jeopardy rules) was Fran Drescher. The contestant however said Fran Dreschler. Alex gave him credit for the right answer but I knew they would change. Sure enough, after the show came back from commercial, Alex made an announcement that the answer was reviewed and they decided it was wrong. But they deducted $2000 from his score. I don't understand why anything other than $1,000 was taken out. I'm also pretty sure that it's not always double what the clue was worth.



Can anyone shed some light on this?Do you know how the score changes are decided in Jeopardy?
It's simple: They take back the $1,000 that was given to the contestant when they answered. They also take an additional $1,000 away since the contestant answered incorrectly; as per the rules of the game.



Which is why it looked like they lost $2,000; the original $1,000 should have never been awarded in the first place. If it turns out that the error had a possible effect on the outcome of the game; anybody affected gets to keep their winnings, and play again (even if they didn't win).



In other words, they deducted $1,000 since the answer wasn't right, and another $1,000 since the answer was wrong.

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