Ken Jennings recently left his Jeopardy! bosses screaming after an on-air screw up. Now, the producers are not perfect by any means. Yet, Ken is supposed to catch mistakes and this time, he made one and had to quickly retract it. What happened? Keep reading for more details.
Ken Jennings Left Jeopardy! Bosses Screaming After On-Air Screw Up
Mistakes happen to everyone and they do happen on television. However, with a show like Jeopardy!, the answers are right there in front of host Ken Jennings. Therefore, he should not have any problems when someone gives the wrong response to a clue. Unfortunately, he is not perfect and recently, he made an on-air mistake. He has done things in the past that viewers did not care for. Contestants have written their answers out in chicken scratch and somehow, it is right. That was not the case this time around.
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Ken Jennings Left Jeopardy! Bosses Screaming After On-Air Screw Up
Mistakes happen to everyone and they do happen on television. However, with a show like Jeopardy!, the answers are right there in front of host Ken Jennings. Therefore, he should not have any problems when someone gives the wrong response to a clue. Unfortunately, he is not perfect and recently, he made an on-air mistake. He has done things in the past that viewers did not care for. Contestants have written their answers out in chicken scratch and somehow, it is right. That was not the case this time around.
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- 4/26/2024
- by Amanda Lauren
- TV Shows Ace
Jeopardy! super-champ Matt Amodio has come to the defense of a fellow contestant who lost Tuesday’s (April 16) game after an unfortunate Daily Double blunder. On Tuesday’s episode, Eric Reimund, a substitute teacher originally from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, took on Veronica Tabor, a study abroad advisor from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and reigning champion Alison Betts, who at that point had won three consecutive games. Reimund gave Betts a run for her money, answering multiple clues correctly and finding both Daily Doubles during the Double Jeopardy! round. However, he found himself having to rebuild his score after he forgot to phrase his (correct) answer in the form of a question. Amodio took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his thoughts on the brutal mistake, noting that the pressure can get to you under the bright lights. He also used the moment to explain the unusual strategy he adopted during his 38-game winning streak.
- 4/19/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s regular gameplay continues and with it the streak of five-day champion Alison Betts, who returned to play alongside new competitors Marko Saric and Rob Blumenstein. The writer and creative executive from San Jose, California had already won $121,500 over her first five games, but was the latest episode about to raise her earnings? Although they technically were by the way second-place prizes work, Alison walked away with $2,000 more in winnings but ultimately ended her streak. Jeopardy!, Inc. In the Jeopardy! round, Alison started strong, finishing in the lead with $5,000 against Rob’s $3,600 and Marko’s $4,400. But the tides changed in Double Jeopardy! when Marko took the lead after finding the third Daily Double, finishing the round out with $12,900 against Alison’s $11,000, and Rob’s $9,600. When it came to Final Jeopardy!, the category was “Alphabetical America,” with the clue reading, “Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically.
- 4/19/2024
- TV Insider
It takes a lot of confidence and courage to wager a “True Daily Double” on Jeopardy! Whether it goes right or wrong for the contestant at hand, that outcome will almost certainly change the game. Unfortunately, for one of Wednesday night’s contestants, it was for the worse. The contestants of the April 17–– episode were Alison Betts — a four-time champion who walked onto the stage with $107,700 in cash winnings under her belt — along with attorney Jeff Plate and business executive Vidya Ravella. The first round proved it was truly anybody’s game, even if Betts had the edge with the intimidation factor of being on a hot streak. After getting one-third of her answers wrong, she still led the pack with $3,600. Both Plate and Ravella were just behind her, though, and with much better statistics to boot: Plate got six right and one wrong, while Ravella got eight right and two incorrect answers.
- 4/17/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! fans are seriously annoyed after an incorrect clue was featured during Double Jeopardy!
Reigning champion Alison Betts was playing against her competitors, Sarah Avery and Brian Phillips, when she opted for a $1,200 clue in the “American Birds” category.
The San Jose, California native’s clue was a video featuring a brown-winged bird as it fluttered its wings.
Host Ken Jennings read the clue to Alison: “The Cooper’s type of this bird of prey is soon to be the Tbd type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names.”
When Alison’s guess, “Finch,” was deemed incorrect, Ken told her the correct answer was, “Cooper’s Hawk.”
But, some hawk-eyed (pun intended) Jeopardy! viewers pointed out that the bird in question wasn’t a hawk but a falcon.
Jeopardy! fans say writers missed the mark with a recent video clue
Over on Reddit, critics discussed...
Reigning champion Alison Betts was playing against her competitors, Sarah Avery and Brian Phillips, when she opted for a $1,200 clue in the “American Birds” category.
The San Jose, California native’s clue was a video featuring a brown-winged bird as it fluttered its wings.
Host Ken Jennings read the clue to Alison: “The Cooper’s type of this bird of prey is soon to be the Tbd type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names.”
When Alison’s guess, “Finch,” was deemed incorrect, Ken told her the correct answer was, “Cooper’s Hawk.”
But, some hawk-eyed (pun intended) Jeopardy! viewers pointed out that the bird in question wasn’t a hawk but a falcon.
Jeopardy! fans say writers missed the mark with a recent video clue
Over on Reddit, critics discussed...
- 4/17/2024
- by Mona Wexler
- Monsters and Critics
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, April 16, 2024 episode of Jeopardy!] Alison Betts is now a four-day Jeopardy! champ. Her fourth consecutive victory was nearly thwarted by her competitor, but a snafu in Double Jeopardy, plus a stumper in the final round, led to her lucky win. Competing in the April 16, 2024 match were Eric Reimund, a substitute teacher from Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Veronica Tabor, a study abroad advisor from Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Betts, a writer and creative executive from San Jose, California. Betts began the game with $97,500 in winnings so far, and she walked away having increased that total to $107,700. With a score of $5,200 and her opponents far behind, Betts led the first round. But Reimund caught up in to her in the second and found both of the Daily Doubles, but he made the biggest mistake you can make in Jeopardy that made him lose the second of these clues: he forgot to answer in the form ...
- 4/17/2024
- TV Insider
After a long string of tournaments, Jeopardy! returned to regular play this week with new contestants, but one of the players on Thursday’s (April 11) episode wasn’t quite a stranger when it came to TV game shows. Thursday’s game saw Alison Betts, a writer and creative executive originally from San Jose, California, taking on Brian Hardzinski, a public radio producer originally from Flower Mound, Texas, and Lee Wilkins, a regulatory affairs coordinator from Auburn, Alabama. Wilkins had unseated three-day champion Lucas Patridge on Wednesday but was unable to get out of the blocks in this episode. Instead, Betts and Hardzinksi dominated. The pair went back and forth throughout the game, with Betts leading by just $600 going into Final Jeopardy. Heading into the final round, Betts stood at $14,600, Hardzinksi followed closely behind with $14,000, and Wilkins trailed with $3,200. The final clue under the category “Space Shuttles” read, “2 space shuttles were...
- 4/12/2024
- TV Insider
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