Ken Jennings was initially stumped by the national attention that his record-setting Jeopardy! run garnered 20 years ago.
Now the Jeopardy! host, Jennings was a software developer at a health care staffing facility in Salt Lake City when he and his former college roommate drove to Los Angeles to audition for the long-running game show that Jennings has loved since childhood.
It wasn’t until a year later that Jennings learned he had earned a spot to compete and was expected to film in three weeks. “There were reruns on in our market, so I could watch Jeopardy! 12 times a week, and I went into this very serious Rocky training mode where I would stand up behind a recliner that I pretended was a contestant podium,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In between his audition and his call-up, Jeopardy! had dropped its rule that contestants must exit after five victories — meaning...
Now the Jeopardy! host, Jennings was a software developer at a health care staffing facility in Salt Lake City when he and his former college roommate drove to Los Angeles to audition for the long-running game show that Jennings has loved since childhood.
It wasn’t until a year later that Jennings learned he had earned a spot to compete and was expected to film in three weeks. “There were reruns on in our market, so I could watch Jeopardy! 12 times a week, and I went into this very serious Rocky training mode where I would stand up behind a recliner that I pretended was a contestant podium,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In between his audition and his call-up, Jeopardy! had dropped its rule that contestants must exit after five victories — meaning...
- 6/1/2024
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A clearly thrilled Grant DeYoung won his fourth game of Jeopardy! on Monday night (May 20) despite trailing his opponents for the majority of the episode. The Prescott, Arizona native came into the episode as a three-day champion, having won $67,202 in his previous appearances. However, things got off to a rocky start as five incorrect responses put DeYoung behind his competitors, filmmaker Gregg Meller and student Ivvone Zhou. Meller continued strongly in the next round, finding both Daily Doubles. Unfortunately, he wagered big on the second, losing a big chunk of his earnings and allowing DeYoung to take a slight lead heading into Final Jeopardy. DeYoung and Zhou both answered Final Jeopardy correctly, but DeYoung wagered enough to snatch the win by just $1, finishing with $14,001 over Zhou’s $14,000. It was clearly an emotional victory for DeYoung, who last week shared with viewers how he was in a car crash the moment...
- 5/21/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! champion Amy Hummel was looking for her sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday night (May 1) but came undone by a “brutal” mispronunciation ruling that cost her the game. Hummel, an ER doctor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had already amassed an impressive $100,994 across her first five games and looked to add to that total on Wednesday’s episode. She was up against Nils Cousin, an attorney from Washington, D.C., and Weckiai Rannila, an engineer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. After the first round, the game was close, with Cousin in a slight lead with $6,000, Rannila following behind with $5,400, and Hummel trailing with $3,000. As the three contestants entered the Double Jeopardy round, it was all very much still to play for. But Hummel couldn’t make up the deficit despite finding both Daily Doubles, answering neither correctly. This saw her drop out of contention with just $3,600 going into Final Jeopardy, while Rannila led...
- 5/2/2024
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the April 23 episode of Jeopardy!] Nam Nguyen set an impressive buzzer stat in the April 22 game of Jeopardy!. His buzzer percentage was 71 percent, which host Ken Jennings said was “almost unheard of” at the top of the April 23 episode. But his speedy buzzing (which he attributes to his video game experience) wasn’t enough to protect the one-day champ from an incorrect answer in Final Jeopardy. Nguyen, a playwright from Mississauga, Ontario, was playing against Mark Lashley, a professor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lianne Schaffer, a piano teacher and musician from Newton, Massachusetts on Tuesday. He enjoyed a large lead for the entire game, and a runaway game was nearly possible. Thanks to some Daily Double action, Lashley was able to catch up to the point where his score was just a bit more than half of Nguyen’s. The scores going into the final were Nguyen with $17,600, Lashley with $9,000, and Schaffer with $7,000. ...
- 4/23/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s Invitational Tournament continues to rage on and it was a close call for a fan-favorite in the March 28th quarterfinals match between Sam Kavanaugh, Chuck Forrest, and Monica Thieu. As a five-game champion from Season 35 and 2021 Tournament of Champions winner, Sam has been a recent favorite among viewers of the game show. But things weren’t looking good for Sam early on as he entered Double Jeopardy with a meager $200 against Chuck’s $2,600 and Moncia’s impressive $8,200. Things began to turn around for Sam in the Double Jeopardy round as he snagged both Daily Doubles delivering correct responses for clues in the categories “Art Terms” and “Science.” In both instances, he added thousands to his score, leaving him at a marginal lead over Chuck’s $11,000 with $12,000. Still, Sam was trailing behind Monica’s $15,800 as they entered Final Jeopardy. The category was “20th Century Books” with the clue being,...
- 3/29/2024
- TV Insider
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the March 27, 2024 episode of Jeopardy!] You don’t see comebacks like these anymore! But when Jeopardy! champ Jennifer Quail is at the podium, you should perhaps expect it. Quail staged a stunning 11th-hour win in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament on Wednesday, March 27, beating out quizmasters Brandon Blackwell and Alex Jacob. But was her Final Jeopardy record indication that she could take home the win? Quail is a wine-tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan who has been live-tweeting Jeopardy! every day for years. She’s s Season 36 eight-game champion and 2021 Tournament of Champions first runner-up. She’s appeared in 14 total episodes, including the March 27 game, and she’s answered Final Jeopardy correctly in 13 of them. Her 13th correct final answer won her the game in her first Jit appearance. Competing against Quail were Blackwell, a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York, and Jacob, an online trivia league host from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Blackwell ...
- 3/27/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! host, Ken Jennings has fans raging when he let a contestant break a vital rule. This is something that rubs viewers the wrong way when it happens. So, what exactly happened? Read on for more details on the entire situation.
Jeopardy! Ken Jennings Lets Contestant Break Vital Rule, Fans Rage
Ken Jennings has given Jeopardy! contestants grace at times and this does not sit well with viewers at home. There have been instances when contestants have been in Final Jeopardy! but their handwriting has been illegible. It then becomes a question of if they wrote the right answer or not based on who can read it. Yet, one cardinal rule of the game is how one answers. It must always be in the form of a question such as “Who is” or “What is.” If this does not happen then the answer should not be accepted and with good reason.
Jeopardy! Ken Jennings Lets Contestant Break Vital Rule, Fans Rage
Ken Jennings has given Jeopardy! contestants grace at times and this does not sit well with viewers at home. There have been instances when contestants have been in Final Jeopardy! but their handwriting has been illegible. It then becomes a question of if they wrote the right answer or not based on who can read it. Yet, one cardinal rule of the game is how one answers. It must always be in the form of a question such as “Who is” or “What is.” If this does not happen then the answer should not be accepted and with good reason.
- 3/17/2024
- by Amanda Lauren
- TV Shows Ace
Every dedicated Jeopardy! watcher knows that moment.
You just rattled off a few correct responses in a row. Perhaps you even ran a whole category! The thought occurs to you: I could be a champion. The Jeopardy! Anytime test is right there. Then all you’d need to do is ace the interview portion, fly to Burbank, and enter into the Jeopardy! canon. You’re the next Matt Amodio. You’re the next Amy Schneider. You’ve got this.
Well friend, sad to say you probably don’t got this. Jeopardy! is hard … very hard. And sometimes Jeopardy! likes to remind we casuals of just how competitive a contest it really is. The latest reminder has arrived in the form of this year’s Tournament of Champions. This is the largest ToC in the show’s history, featuring a record 27 contestants vying for a $250,000 prize and spot in the upcoming Jeopardy!
You just rattled off a few correct responses in a row. Perhaps you even ran a whole category! The thought occurs to you: I could be a champion. The Jeopardy! Anytime test is right there. Then all you’d need to do is ace the interview portion, fly to Burbank, and enter into the Jeopardy! canon. You’re the next Matt Amodio. You’re the next Amy Schneider. You’ve got this.
Well friend, sad to say you probably don’t got this. Jeopardy! is hard … very hard. And sometimes Jeopardy! likes to remind we casuals of just how competitive a contest it really is. The latest reminder has arrived in the form of this year’s Tournament of Champions. This is the largest ToC in the show’s history, featuring a record 27 contestants vying for a $250,000 prize and spot in the upcoming Jeopardy!
- 3/4/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
When a sitcom reaches a certain level of longevity, it can be easy for writers to take their audience for granted. Storylines get lightly reworked, if not recycled wholesale. Cheap ratings are scored by having a significant character get married (call it the "Rhoda boost"). And there's no better way to guarantee the maximum amount of eyeballs than to have a major celebrity play themselves within the world of our favorite characters.
This typically works. Who can forget the time Bobby Brady faked a serious illness to earn a bedside visit from Joe Namath on "The Brady Bunch," or the time that pint-sized prankster Arnold Jackson pulled the same trick to get Muhammad Ali up to the Drummond's penthouse on "Diff'rent Strokes?" These are memorable episodes to be sure, but there's nothing more to them than the cameo.
It's far more satisfying when you can drop the celeb into...
This typically works. Who can forget the time Bobby Brady faked a serious illness to earn a bedside visit from Joe Namath on "The Brady Bunch," or the time that pint-sized prankster Arnold Jackson pulled the same trick to get Muhammad Ali up to the Drummond's penthouse on "Diff'rent Strokes?" These are memorable episodes to be sure, but there's nothing more to them than the cameo.
It's far more satisfying when you can drop the celeb into...
- 2/17/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Jeopardy‘s Tournament of Champions is drawing ever closer, but one contestant who won’t be competing in the highly-anticipated competition is Donna Matturri. Matturi, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio, was a fan-favorite heading into Monday’s (February 12) episode of Champions Wildcard. A former two-day champion, she faced off against fellow returning champs, Dan Wohl, a high school history teacher from Brooklyn, New York, and Sriram Krishnan, a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia. With a spot in the semi-finals on the line, Matturi got out to a strong start. After the first round, she led the way with $4,900, even after incorrectly answering a Daily Double clue. She continued to power ahead during the Double Jeopardy round, finding another Daily Double and, this time, using it to extend her lead. By the end of the round, Matturi had answered 23 clues correctly and just one incorrectly and went into Final Jeopardy with...
- 2/13/2024
- TV Insider
Is Final Jeopardy! getting too easy? That’s what some Jeopardy! viewers are saying after a recent episode.
Fans of Jeopardy! are expressing dissatisfaction with clues they have deemed too simple for players who are supposed to be especially challenged during the game’s final round.
A recent episode of Jeopardy! saw two contestants stumped over a Final Jeopardy! clue that viewers at home felt should have been an effortless slam dunk.
During Friday’s episode, contestants Shael Menkhus, Tamara Ghattas, and Ittai Sopher competed against each other.
When it came time for Final Jeopardy!, host Ken Jennings told the trio, “We know the last Final Jeopardy! category of the week will be Leading Ladies: Next In Line.”
“Let’s take a look at the clue: Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Her,” Ken said before prompting the contestants, “30 seconds. Good luck.”
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Fans of Jeopardy! are expressing dissatisfaction with clues they have deemed too simple for players who are supposed to be especially challenged during the game’s final round.
A recent episode of Jeopardy! saw two contestants stumped over a Final Jeopardy! clue that viewers at home felt should have been an effortless slam dunk.
During Friday’s episode, contestants Shael Menkhus, Tamara Ghattas, and Ittai Sopher competed against each other.
When it came time for Final Jeopardy!, host Ken Jennings told the trio, “We know the last Final Jeopardy! category of the week will be Leading Ladies: Next In Line.”
“Let’s take a look at the clue: Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Her,” Ken said before prompting the contestants, “30 seconds. Good luck.”
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- 1/29/2024
- by Mona Wexler
- Monsters and Critics
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, January 2 episode of Jeopardy!] As we enter the first semifinal round of Jeopardy! Second Chance, Michael Cavaliere, a consultant from New York, New York; Sharon Bishop, a high school Spanish teacher from Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Sophia Weng, a senior social studies major at Harvard College from Chevy Chase, Maryland, had an intense match that saw a contestant make a fatal error. After the first break, Michael earned a substantial lead of $6,400 thanks to his Daily Double wager of $2,600. The lead grew larger when contestants reached Double Jeopardy, with Michael at $10,000, Sharon at $3,400, and Sophia at $2,400. On the first clue of the round, Sophia found the second Daily Double and added $1,400 to her total. With Sophia now coming in hot, Michael secured the third and last Daily Double, adding another $4,800 to his leading score. By the time the trio reached Final Jeopardy, Michael had 28,800, followed by Sophia with $14,600, and Sharan in ...
- 1/3/2024
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the December 18 episode of Jeopardy!] The contestants of game two of the finals of Champions Wildcard may have gotten one of the Daily Double questions wrong in the December 18 episode of Jeopardy! but fans feel like they should have been harder at this point in a tournament. Gary Hollis, a chemistry professor from Roanoke, Virginia, Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer currently serving in Stuttgart, Germany, and Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender originally from Lafayette, Louisiana faced off for the second of the two-game total final. And as Ken Jennings (now the sole host of the syndicated series) noted, “We have seen on more than one occasion that having the lead at the end of Game 1 does not necessarily indicate who will come out ahead in the end.” Such was the case here, with Yungsheng, the only one to get the Final Jeopardy answer, walking away as ...
- 12/19/2023
- TV Insider
As we continue the Champions Wildgame Tournament on Jeopardy!, Matt Mierswa, an attorney from River Edge, New Jersey; Andrew Chaikin, a musician & teacher from San Francisco, California; and Laura Portwood-Stacer, an editor & author originally from Livonia, Michigan went head to head. But the game all came down to the 2020s Television category in Final Jeopardy. As the game began, Andrew quickly gained the advantage before the first break, especially after grabbing the first Daily Double, elevating his total lead to $2,600. However, things quickly changed once we came back, as Laura was able to come from third to first place at $4,400, followed by Andrew at $3,600, and Matt with $2,600 before heading into Double Jeopardy. Although Laura had the lead and Matt was able to get a true Dd on the second Daily Double of the game, Andrew was not deterred and continued playing strong. In the process, he found the third Daily Double of the game,...
- 12/6/2023
- TV Insider
Records were broken on Wednesday’s (November 15) episode of Celebrity Jeopardy!, which saw a three-way showdown between Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch and WWE superstar Becky Lynch. Fans were smitten with Culkin, who had an impressive performance across the episode but lost by just $1 to Dratch in Final Jeopardy! The former child star looked fresh, rocking a beard and stylish haircut, which had some viewers drooling. “Watching Celebrity Jeopardy and drooling over how healthy and gorgeous Macaulay Culkin is… what?! I hope he wins,” wrote one fan on X (formerly Twitter). “I’m always taken aback when I see that Macaulay Culkin isn’t little Kevin McCallister anymore. I’m feeling old watching,” said another. “Did not recognize #MacaulyCulkin on #Jeopardy tonight. He looks great!” added another viewer. “I’m sitting here watching celebrity jeopardy, because I’m 75 years old, and Macaulay Culkin is on.
- 11/16/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Wednesday, October 25, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] Final Jeopardy triple stumpers are pretty common nowadays, but Jeopardy! fans are “amazed” that the final clue in the October 25 episode bested all three players. And in fact, the confusing category and clue prompted the winner to question host Ken Jennings after the show. Competing in the game were Phillip Howard, a Naval officer from Santa Clarita, California; Emily Sands, a project manager from Chanhassen, Minnesota; and Carlos Chaidez, a civil engineer from Burbank, California. It was a fairly high-scoring game on all of their parts; the scores going into Final Jeopardy were Carlos with $13,400, Emily with $25,200, and Phillip with $9,200. Carlos bet, and lost, it all in the final round, and Emily came out on top with a final score of $23,599. Phillip ended in second with $8,400. The final category was “Historic Letters.” The clue read: “A letter from him begins, ‘On the thirty-third day after I had ...
- 10/26/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, October 24, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] Jilana Cotter impressed fans during the Tuesday, October 24 episode of Jeopardy!. Following her appearance on the game show, she took to the Jeopardy Reddit discussion board to give viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the episode in addition to answering questions about her game play, and her comments addressed her Final Jeopardy bet that she called “embarrassing.” By the time of the first commercial break, Jilana, a senior data analyst from Dade City, Florida, had won $4,400. She was in the lead ahead of competitors Steve Crupi, a retired police information supervisor from Las Vegas, Nevada, and John Vigna, a writer from Los Angeles, California, but Steve caught up after the first break. By the end of the round, she had only added $200 to her score, leaving her with $4,600. Steve was in the lead with $6,400. John was trailing behind with -$400. Jilana increased her winnings to $19,000 in Double Jeopardy, ...
- 10/25/2023
- TV Insider
Ken Jennings tries to keep a straight face when reading out contestants’ answers on Jeopardy!, but even he couldn’t hide his shocked reaction at the end of Thursday’s (October 12) episode. The contestant in question was attorney Steve Clarke, a former two-day winner from Season 38, who was taking on former three-day champ Josh Saak and one-day winner Valerie Castelo as part of the currently airing Champions Wildcard tournament. Clarke and Saak went back and forth throughout the episode, with Clarke landing the final Daily Double, giving him a slight lead heading into Final Jeopardy! with $19,100 to Saak’s $16,400. The Final Jeopardy!, which came under the “Word Origins” category, seemed relatively simple on the surface. The clue read: “Though it meant ‘seasickness’ in Latin, this 6-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of sickness.” Jeopardy, Inc Saak and Castelo wrote the correct answer, “Nausea,” with the former adding a further $2,701 to his total.
- 10/13/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Wednesday, October 4, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] It’s not often that a Jeopardy! contestant wagers nothing in Final Jeopardy, but fans witnessed that rarity in the game that aired on Wednesday, October 4. The players were John Bussard, a Marine aviator from Ringoes, New Jersey; Kendra Blanchette, a registered dietician from Elk Grove, California; and Evan Roberts, a chemistry teacher from Louisville, Kentucky. Kendra was in first, John was in second, and Evan was in third for most of the game. By the time of Final Jeopardy, that was still the case. Kendra went into the final round with $23,200, John with $14,200, and Evan with $6,000. The category was “American Immigrants,” and the clue read: “His 1904 will stipulated that “all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only.” John was the only one of the three players to answer the prompt correctly with “Who was Pulitzer?” But he wagered $0. Kendra’s score ...
- 10/5/2023
- TV Insider
One thing about the game of Jeopardy! is that it’s almost always unpredictable, but even more so during the July 5 game between returning champion Kate Campolieta and new players Aubrey Gilleran, and Anji Nyquist. After winning $11,513, Kate had a strong base to build off of heading into her second game against Charlotte, North Carolina high school English teacher, Aubrey, and Minneapolis, Minnesota-based social media coordinator Anji. Still, the Simsbury, Connecticut corporate communications specialist faced challenges once the game hosted by Ken Jennings began. Starting the first round in the red, but she was in second place once Final Jeopardy! rolled around, putting her behind Aubrey who had taken first with $11,200, and in front of Anji who was trailing them with $4,800. But it seemed like luck was on the underdog’s side in this game as Anji made a surprise comeback in the game’s final seconds. During Final Jeopardy!,...
- 7/6/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the June 26 episode of Jeopardy!] What a contestant wagers for a Daily Double or Final Jeopardy! can mean the difference between winning or losing the game. And so viewers tend to pay close attention — and call out — odd bets, as is the case with the June 26 episode of Jeopardy! Heading into Final Jeopardy, the returning champion, librarian Donna Matturri was leading with $18,800 against new contestants cheesemonger Ryan Clary with $11,600 and realtor Caroline Gulick with $7,400. Then, with the category 20th Century Events — the clue read “It was immediately reported ‘the flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of’ this” — both Donna and Ryan were correct (What is the Hindenburg?). Donna ended up winning with $22,800 while Ryan ended the game in second with $21,822. (Caroline was in third with $0.) However, as fans noted on Reddit, Donna and Ryan’s wagers were “weird.” In fact, ...
- 6/26/2023
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s most recent four-day champion, Ben Goldstein, has reached the pivotal point at which victory could spell a ticket to the Tournament of Champions, but did he make it? During the June 22 game, Ben, a content marketing strategist from Dexter, Michigan, played against university lecturer, Dan Meuse from Cranston, Rhode Island, and Andrea Rednick Granados, a community organizer and stay-at-home daughter from Dallas, Texas. Were Ben’s previous wins a sign of a longer streak? It seems so as the player took the game, winning over Dan with just five extra dollars. Starting out strong at the end of the Jeopardy! round and heading into Double Jeopardy!, he had a lead over Dan and Andrea, with $8,000 compared to their $6,800 and $3,200. He was still comfortably leading at the start of Final Jeopardy! with $15,200 over Dan’s $12,000 and Andrea’s $4,500. Once Final Jeopardy! rolled around, the competitors were faced with the category,...
- 6/23/2023
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s latest game raises a curious question about Final Jeopardy! responses after one player’s flub catches the attention of fans. In the June 15 episode, one-day champion Holly Hassel, an English professor from Fargo, North Dakota faced off against Reston, Virginia marketing manager Suzanne Goldlust, and Burlington, Vermont math teacher Kiran MacCormick. During the fast-paced game, Suzanne took a solid lead over her competitors, leaving little to the imagination once Final Jeopardy! rolled around and she had $17,700 in the bank, a comfortable lead over Holly’s $8,000 and Kiran’s $5,600. But once the Final Jeopardy! clue in the category of “The U.S. Government” was provided, they were left to serve up the corresponding question to, “Established in 1938, this congressional group was still issuing subpoenas in 1969 & finally ceased to exist 6 years later.” The correct response was “What is Huac, or House Un-American Activities Committee?” The big debate raised during the final though,...
- 6/16/2023
- TV Insider
Wednesday night’s “Jeopardy!” contained 23 triple stumpers, meaning none of the three contestants guessed at all, making the Coryat, or final score, the lowest this season.
Competitor Collette Lee addressed the challenging game on Reddit.
“Collette here – Kristine [Rembach] and I commented on that to each other before Final, saying that we were worried we’d go viral for not knowing anything!” Lee wrote. “I personally tried to ‘keep calm and clam up’ to try to avoid ending up in the red with bad guesses but as the game wore on, especially in Double Jeopardy it was obvious we were collectively riding the struggle bus with our board!”
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One fan on Reddit quoted the overall known record for triple stumpers as 24.
“My summary: Both Kristine and Collette were awesome players and the game could have gone anyone’s way.
Competitor Collette Lee addressed the challenging game on Reddit.
“Collette here – Kristine [Rembach] and I commented on that to each other before Final, saying that we were worried we’d go viral for not knowing anything!” Lee wrote. “I personally tried to ‘keep calm and clam up’ to try to avoid ending up in the red with bad guesses but as the game wore on, especially in Double Jeopardy it was obvious we were collectively riding the struggle bus with our board!”
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‘Wheel of Fortune’ Fans Roast Final Puzzle That Cost Contestant $100,000: ‘No One Says That’
One fan on Reddit quoted the overall known record for triple stumpers as 24.
“My summary: Both Kristine and Collette were awesome players and the game could have gone anyone’s way.
- 6/8/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Jeopardy! has been stumping many a player with its Final Jeopardy clues as of late, but the Wednesday, May 31 game proved to be a difficult game overall for both players and viewers at home. Playing in the episode were Ilhana Redzovic from Chicago, Illinois, Kyle Marshall from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Lisa Gargiulo from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Ilhana would walk away victorious for the second night in a row, but her win would also come after another triple-stumper clue in Final Jeopardy, plus $0 in winnings after the first round. Ilhana was leading the first round when she answered a Daily Double incorrectly. Having bet it all on this bonus clue, she lost $2,200 in one fell swoop. The category was “Dude, Here’s Your Car.” The clue: “Lamborghini’s Sesto Elemento was named for its pioneering use of this, from which much of the car is made.” But even with $0, Ilhana...
- 6/1/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the May 23 episode of Jeopardy!] Nine-day Jeopardy! champ Ben Chan took on retired museum educator Lynn Di Vito and policy communications manager Joe Leserman to continue his record-making reign and increase his total winnings of $252,600. Host Mayim Bialik joked that Chan could even someday match Ken Jennings’ streak of 65 runaway wins. However, a rocky game for Chan and a harsh ruling from the judges may jeopardize his chances of breaking that streak. Ben lost $4,200 on a true Daily Double in the first round but retained the lead going into Double Jeopardy with $3,800, Danny at $600, and Lynn with $400. Lynn secured the second Daily Double and took first place by adding $3,000 to her total of $7,200, tying with Ben. During the third Daily Double, Ben dropped $3,000 from his score of $11,200 against Lynn’s $11,600 but played a strong game leading into Final Jeopardy with $17,400, Lynn with $14,800, and $2,400 for Danny. Jeopardy! Inc. In Final Jeopardy, in the category ...
- 5/23/2023
- TV Insider
Move over Joey and Chandler, television has a new best bromance, and it’s two Jeopardy! legends with an impressive knack for trivia and a fondness for flirtatious banter. That’s right, Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings and the game show’s self-declared “supervillain” James Holzhauer have become quite the double act during the currently airing Masters tournament. The pair have been playfully teasing each other throughout the competition, winning over plenty of fans in the process. Holzhauer kicked things off during the first episode of Masters when he used his Final Jeopardy answer to call out Jennings, who previously beat him in the Goat tournament. “Stop ducking a rematch, Ken,” Holzhauer wrote, which caused laughter from Jennings and the studio audience. “You know how much work I had to go to to get all the way over at this lectern and avoid having to play you again, James?” Jennings replied.
- 5/17/2023
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s current champion Hannah Wilson faced off against two new competitors in the May 11 game, but was she able to hold onto her ongoing streak? Kicking the Mayim Bialik-hosted game off with six wins under her belt, Hannah had already earned $163,801, but she was determined to continue building as she took to the podium alongside new players, Jon Carnegie and Kat Waller. A data scientist from Chicago, Hannah’s expertise was evident as she quickly buzzed in answers across the Jeopardy!, Double Jeopardy!, and Final Jeopardy! rounds. Doing well in the first two rounds, Hannah entered Final Jeopardy! with a strong $23,000 and added an additional $3,000 when she offered the correct response to the question which fell under the category “History.” The statement presented to the players read, “His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, ‘Sometime general in the army of George Washington.'” The correct response was “Who is Benedict Arnold?...
- 5/12/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the April 20 episode of Jeopardy!] They say no risk, no reward, but this week’s Jeopardy! contestants are finding that the risks aren’t worth it. For the second night in a row, none of the players answered Final Jeopardy correctly. But two of them — including returning champ Devin Lohman — made large wagers that hurt their chances of clinching the win. Emma Hill Kepron, a librarian from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, went home victorious in the April 20 episode of Jeopardy!, unseating champ Devin. Unfortunately for him, his final wager made that easy to do. Here’s how Emma ended up winning the night. The episode began with host Ken Jennings announcing Devin’s new Jeopardy! record. In the April 19 episode, the architectural designer and masters student from Peachtree City, Georgia won with just $1,200 in earnings. He now holds the record for the lowest-winning score of the season, “but you know what?” Jennings said, “he’...
- 4/21/2023
- TV Insider
An eagle-eyed Jeopardy! fan caught a rare sight during Friday’s (April 14) episode when host Ken Jennings held up the Final Jeopardy! card in front of the cameras. As Friday’s episode came to a close, Jennings turned to the camera and raised his arms, but in doing so, he flashed the front of his cue card, which included several lines and a table filled in with different words and notes. Jeopardy! superfan Lilly managed to snap a screenshot of the moment and shared it on Twitter. She also explained how the tables on the card worked based on her knowledge of the show. “We got a rare look at Ken’s Final Jeopardy card tonight!” she tweeted on Friday night. “This is the card where a staff member (I believe co-head writer Michele Loud) writes all the contestant wagers and possible outcomes for the host to have on hand...
- 4/17/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the April 11 episode of Jeopardy!] After the previous episode receiving flack for its relatively easy Final Jeopardy, all three contestants during the following April 11 installment of Jeopardy! showcased a triple stumper. During the first week of the month, four out of five days saw contestants getting the Final Jeopardy incorrect, and unfortunately, this installment was a return to form. Artist Kat Jepson, theater professor Mark Sutch, and one-day champion (and Magic: The Gathering player) Robbi Ramirez entered Double Jeopardy with $4,600, $3,200, and $7,400, respectively. The second Daily Double of the game arrived in the category: A Language of Consonant Plus Vowel; Kat added $3,000 to her total of $7,800, securing her spot in first place. Soon after, in the third Daily Double, in the category of: One Hot MoMA, Kat got the correct answer once again, bolstering her score of $12,400 to $23,800. When Final Jeopardy finally approached, Kat stood in the lead, with Mark was just $10,200 behind her.
- 4/12/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the April 11 episode of Jeopardy!] After the previous episode receiving flack for its relatively easy Final Jeopardy, all three contestants during the following April 11 installment of Jeopardy! showcased a triple stumper. During the first week of the month, four out of five days saw contestants getting the Final Jeopardy incorrect, and unfortunately, this installment was a return to form. Artist Kat Jepson, theater professor Mark Sutch, and one-day champion (and Magic: The Gathering player) Robbi Ramirez entered Double Jeopardy with $4,600, $3,200, and $7,400, respectively. The second Daily Double of the game arrived in the category A Language of Consonant Plus Vowel; Kat added $3,000 to her total of $7,800, securing her spot in first place. Soon after, in the third Daily Double, in the category of One Hot MoMA, Kat took the lead from Robbi with $12,400. When Final Jeopardy finally approached, Kat stood in the lead by $23,800, and Mark was just $10,200 behind her. Unfortunately, nobody could answer...
- 4/12/2023
- TV Insider
It was such a Mickey Mouse question.
“Jeopardy” fans are steaming over what many deemed the easiest Final Jeopardy ever on Monday’s show.
As the three players headed into the game show’s last round with the category, “Famous Names,” challenger Robbi Ramirez had a commanding lead with $22,400, but it was not a runaway win — challenger P.J. Brennan had $11,400 and defending champ Rachel Clark was still in the mix with $10,200.
Host Ken Jennings read the clue: “In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida.”
The answer was “Walt Disney,” which was particularly easy for anyone who knows, as Jennings noted after Clark’s correct answer was revealed. “The experimental prototype community of tomorrow became Epcot,” he said.
All three contestants had the correct answer, with Ramirez the winner with $22,800, following a relatively conservative wager of $1,400.
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“Jeopardy” fans are steaming over what many deemed the easiest Final Jeopardy ever on Monday’s show.
As the three players headed into the game show’s last round with the category, “Famous Names,” challenger Robbi Ramirez had a commanding lead with $22,400, but it was not a runaway win — challenger P.J. Brennan had $11,400 and defending champ Rachel Clark was still in the mix with $10,200.
Host Ken Jennings read the clue: “In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida.”
The answer was “Walt Disney,” which was particularly easy for anyone who knows, as Jennings noted after Clark’s correct answer was revealed. “The experimental prototype community of tomorrow became Epcot,” he said.
All three contestants had the correct answer, with Ramirez the winner with $22,800, following a relatively conservative wager of $1,400.
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- 4/11/2023
- by Eileen AJ Connelly
- The Wrap
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the April 10 episode of Jeopardy!] After four of the five days of the previous week consisted of no one getting the Final Jeopardy correct (and only one person on the fifth), the April 10 episode of Jeopardy! featured what many fans called a very “easy” end to the game. Physics teacher P.J. Brennan and writer Robbie Ramirez came on to compete against returning champ Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy. Going into Final Jeopardy, Robbie led with $22,400, P.J. had $11,400, and Rachel was in third with $10,200. And that was the order in which they ended the game, with Robbi the new champ. But as viewers noted, this Final Jeopardy was certainly nowhere near as difficult as recent ones. The category was Famous Names, and host Ken Jennings, upon unveiling that, said, “that doesn’t help a whole lot. But we’ll be back with the clue. Everything will ...
- 4/10/2023
- TV Insider
When it comes to Jeopardy!, there are quite a few rules that contestants need to follow. For example, when competing, all answers need to be given in the form of a question. There are also strict rules about how much time all the competitors are given to answer the Final Jeopardy! clue correctly. Those who are fans of the show know that contestants have only 30 seconds to come up with their answers. However, it seems that the contestants must follow specific rules even when they aren’t on camera. In fact, a past Jeopardy! winner revealed that players aren’t allowed to go anywhere unattended during their time on the show.
Jeopardy! set in 2010 | Amanda Edwards / Stringer ‘Jeopardy!’ winner Milo Muggins did an Ama on Reddit
If you’re a diehard Jeopardy! fan, you might just remember Milo Muggins. Muggins competed on “America’s favorite game show” just over nine years ago.
Jeopardy! set in 2010 | Amanda Edwards / Stringer ‘Jeopardy!’ winner Milo Muggins did an Ama on Reddit
If you’re a diehard Jeopardy! fan, you might just remember Milo Muggins. Muggins competed on “America’s favorite game show” just over nine years ago.
- 3/31/2023
- by Abeni Tinubu
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the March 20 episode of Jeopardy!] A contestant’s wager — on Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy — can be what leads to a win or loss. And on the latest episode of Jeopardy!, bets on both of those from one contestant caught the attention of fans. When it came to third Daily Double, the last clue of the game before Final Jeopardy, Melissa Klapper was leading with $21,400. She wagered $3000, in Alphabet Homophones: “It’s a term for the seat of authority of a bishop.” She was correct with ”What is see?” so she ended Double Jeopardy with $24,400. Final Jeopardy’s category was Countries of Africa. The clue was: “At one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, ‘the far west.’” Kelly added $8000 to her total for the correct answer of Morocco. Jake doubled his score, ...
- 3/20/2023
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! has been enjoying its latest ongoing winner Stephen Webb who played for a chance to win his fifth game in the competition against new players academic tutor Karen, and grocery specialist Roy. Over the course of four games, data scientist Stephen has won $100,881 and as he stepped up to the podium once more for the March 13 episode, he played for a chance to win once more and boost his earnings. So, was he victorious? Stephen Webb was indeed successful once again, earning over $38,400 across Jeopardy!, Double Jeopardy!, and Final Jeopardy! rounds for a grand total of $139,281. The remarkable win came as a result of Webb knowing the Final Jeopardy! answer for which he wagered double his winnings for a chance to get ahead. Luckily, the chance paid off as he was the only one to offer the correct response. In the category of literature, Webb and his fellow players were presented with the statement,...
- 3/14/2023
- TV Insider
Calling all fans of Jeopardy! How many times have you gotten to the Final Jeopardy question of the day and known the answer? Have you ever stood and/or shouted at your screen, feeling smug that you got the answer right when all three contestants got it wrong? Certainly, Final Jeopardy is always a talking point for fans of the show. These last few Final Jeopardy questions have been equally easy and challenging if the Jeopardy! Twitter and Reddit fans are any indications. Some find the questions presented in the High School Reunion Tournament too easy and better placed in a children’s trivia competition. Well, now’s your chance to prove yourself. Take our special multiple-choice version of Final Jeopardy questions and see how many you can get right out of 20. And keep in mind, when you get the results: the right answers are in green and the wrong ones are in red.
- 3/8/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Jeopardy!‘s March 2, 2023 episode.] Jeopardy!‘s High School Reunion Tournament is gearing up for the next phase of competition as it unveiled its ninth and final semifinalist. As the ninth game of the tournament rolled around, Hannah Nekritz from Stamford, Connecticut who is a senior at Brandeis University, Caleb Richmond from Bedford, New Hampshire who is a sophomore at Georgetown University, and Maggie Brown from Pensacola, Florida, who is a sophomore at the University of West Florida, were matched against one another for the final semifinalist spot. After the Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! rounds, the players were presented with the Final Jeopardy! question in the category of “Nonfiction.” The clue read, “It has the line, ‘The discovery of America… opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.'” And The Communist Manifesto was the corresponding response. Ultimately, Final Jeopardy! was down to Hannah and Caleb as Maggie entered the round...
- 3/3/2023
- TV Insider
During the February 28 episode of Jeopardy! hosted by Mayim Bialik, many viewers on Twitter gave their blind guesses before the game transitioned into Final Jeopardy. The category during the High School Reunion Tournament, Names In Myth, had the following question: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life. Many users gave their guesses, using every Greek or Norse god they could muster before the question was answered. Some folks said Prometheus, Icarus, Orpheus, Eos, Odin, Achilles, and even Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk. My #blindguess is Prometheus. Category: Names of Myth#jeopardy — BarbThePostcardDiva#ProDemocracy (@MorBeeK) March 1, 2023 Who is Icarus? #blindguess #jeopardy — Donna J Czerniecki (@JCzerniecki) March 1, 2023 who is Eos?#blindguess #Jeopardy — marafish (@marafish) March 1, 2023 Who is Odin? #blindguess #jeopardy — Carla Murray (@zanzibarstar) March 1, 2023 Gilgamesh #BlindGuess #Jeopardy — Jeremy Smith (@jeremy_d_smith1) March 1, 2023 However, some had fun with the joke,...
- 3/1/2023
- TV Insider
Did a very low wager on a Daily Double cost Jeopardy! High School Reunion player Rohan his chance? Heading into Double Jeopardy!, Rohan Kapileshwari led with $9200, followed by Claire Sattler with $4600 and Rhea Sinha with $3800. Rohan then, after searching for it, found the last daily double of the game, under the $1600 clue in Pure Poetry. He had $10,000 at the time — Claire had $11,400 — and only wagered “a whopping $5” (the minimum), getting laughs from everyone. And that was after he’d made the first Daily Double a true Daily Double, bringing his score from $4000 to $8000 in the Home From College category. The clue read: “Namechecking herself, this Lesbos poet ‘asked myself what, (her), can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?’” He got it correct: “I’m not a poetry guy, but I know it: Who is Sappho?” As a result of that low wager, he ended up going into Final Jeopardy!
- 2/28/2023
- TV Insider
Another week of Jeopardy! is underway, and another controversy followed Monday’s (September 19) episode after host Ken Jennings accepted a final answer that some fans deemed “illegible.” The moment in question came during Final Jeopardy! when returning champion Emmett Stanton, who won last Friday’s game, wrote his answer to the clue: “The governor of Massachusetts wrote, it ‘is a poor document, but a mighty act…wrong in its delay till January, but grand & sublime after all.'” It was a crucial answer as the game was pretty much even heading into Final Jeopardy, with fellow contestants Suzanne Goss and Jason Freeman both standing at 8,400, while Stanton had 8,000. The closeness of the game made Jennings’ ruling that much more controversial to the viewers watching at home. Stanton revealed his response to the final clue, where he had written the correct answer, “Emancipation Proclamation,” but his handwriting was barely legible. He...
- 9/20/2022
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! is back and already delivering buzzworthy moments, as a contestant on Tuesday’s (September 13) episode made a final wager blunder so shocking that it lost her the entire game. The show’s 39th season kicked off on Monday with now permanent co-host Ken Jennings at the helm and reigning champion Luigi de Guzman, who won the last game of Season 38, returning to defend his crown. Guzman continued his winning ways on Monday with an impressive 34 correct responses and a 42.4K total, the biggest single-game showing since Mattea Roach. However, Guzman had some stiff competition on Tuesday’s episode, as digital production artist April Marquet went into Final Jeopardy with a slight lead, with her 16,600 to Guzman’s 15,700. All she had to do was correctly answer the last question: “Prince Philip’s titles included Baron Greenwich & Duke of Edinburgh, but not Prince Consort, last used by this royal.” Marquet knew the answer,...
- 9/14/2022
- TV Insider
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