Jeopardy! fans nearly lost their minds over a recent Final Jeopardy! clue that almost had the entire board stumped. What was considered an easy clue almost went unanswered. It was a throwback to the 1980s and viewers couldn’t believe that it seemed so difficult for the contestants. Continue reading to find out what the clue was and why fans were so baffled.
’80s Fad Clue Stumps Jeopardy! Contestants
Returning Jeopardy! champ Allison Gross was in the lead with $19,600. She was up against Isabella Dawis and Jennifer Trofa, who had each accrued $4,200 and $200, respectively.
The Final Jeopardy! category dealt with fads from the 1980s. Ken Jennings read the clue, “A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used ‘near-riot’, ‘adoptable’, ‘waiting for 8 hours’ & ‘my life (is) in danger.”
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The correct answer to the clue was Cabbage Patch Kids, however, none of the contestants seemed to be able to...
’80s Fad Clue Stumps Jeopardy! Contestants
Returning Jeopardy! champ Allison Gross was in the lead with $19,600. She was up against Isabella Dawis and Jennifer Trofa, who had each accrued $4,200 and $200, respectively.
The Final Jeopardy! category dealt with fads from the 1980s. Ken Jennings read the clue, “A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used ‘near-riot’, ‘adoptable’, ‘waiting for 8 hours’ & ‘my life (is) in danger.”
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The correct answer to the clue was Cabbage Patch Kids, however, none of the contestants seemed to be able to...
- 5/13/2024
- by Amanda Blankenship
- TV Shows Ace
Jeopardy!‘s latest match delivered an early twist among its three players leading to a viewer upset after one majorly fumbled lead. The game featured returning player Allison Gross from Cleveland, Ohio, Jennifer Trofa from Los Angeles, California, and Isabella Dawis from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Early on in the game, Isabella gave Allison a run for her money, leading the pack in the first half of the Jeopardy! round with $6,600 against Allison’s $2,000 and Jennifer’s $800. But the tides turned drastically as they headed into Double Jeopardy! after Isabella lost her massive lead, entering the next round with a mere $600 against Allison’s $4,400, and Jennifer’s $1,000. Isabella’s downfall came with the first Daily Double clue under the category “Let’s Go to the Geopark,” which read, “A geopark named for these people is located on the north coast of Spain near the French border.” The correct response was “Who are the Basques?...
- 5/10/2024
- TV Insider
Final Jeopardy is meant to be a very tough part of the game, but was Wednesday night’s last clue on Jeopardy! utterly impossible? Some fans certainly seem to vehemently think so — especially since it resulted in a triple stumper. In the category “Rhyme Time: Opera Edition,” the clue was as follows: “Telling the story of a duke, a jester & the jester’s daughter, it was written by poet Francesco Maria Piave.” The answer? “What is the ‘Rigoletto’ Libretto?” None of the contestants got this correct, and two of them —new challengers Ben Mills and Kelcy LópezFreeman— didn’t even venture a guess! Returning champion Allison Gross, meanwhile, gave it a whirl with “What is Don Juan?” which was obviously not right. “That may be one of the most evil FJs I’ve seen in years,” one fan wrote in response to the clue on Reddit. “I honestly feel bad for the contestants.
- 5/8/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! fans weren’t the only ones who noticed a larger-than-usual number of triple-stumper clues in the Tuesday, May 7 episode. The winner of that night’s game told viewers on the Jeopardy! Reddit discussion board that she noticed the high volume as well while playing, noting that even though she won, she’s “not particularly happy” with how she played. It’s lucky, in that case, that her win allows her to play again and try to redeem herself. Playing in this matchup were returning champ Matthew Smith, a paramedic from New York City; Allison Gross, a data scientist from Cleveland, Ohio; and Daniel King, a Brown University graduate from Parsippany, New Jersey. Their scores were pretty neck-and-neck by the time of the first break, but Gross took the lead by the end of the first round. At that point the scores were Gross with $5,800, Smith with $2,600, and King with...
- 5/8/2024
- TV Insider
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