Jeopardy! fans slam contestants for ‘inexcusably’ missing clue about beloved Grammy-winning singer
JEOPARDY! fans have blasted all of the contestants for missing a clue about a beloved, Grammy-winning singer during the latest episode.
Viewers are saying they refuse to “calm down” after the players let the 32-year-old artist down.
About halfway through Wednesday’s Jeopardy! episode, player Matt asked for the $400 clue in the “title that completes the rhyme” category, which was all about songs.
Trying not to sing the lyrics to the tune of the Taylor Swift song, host Ken Jennings read: “And I’m just like oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh, you need to just stop, like can you just not, step on my gown?”
The clue was met with silence and a confused face from Matt.
He wasn’t the only one to not know the answer, though, as the other two contestants were also stumped, though they had on smiles amid their silence.
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After the allotted time was up, Ken told them: “I really wish this was Johnny [Gilbert] reading these.
“This is You Need to Calm Down by Taylor Swift.”
Despite the clue having the lowest money value, thus deemed the easiest, and being about an 11-time Grammy winner, no one was able to get it right.
This upset fans, who couldn’t believe that not a single player was able to come up with the correct response.
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One annoyed viewer tweeted: “Everyone who makes it on to #Jeopardy clearly has a crown in my book, but I cannot calm down when there is a triple stumper Taylor Swift clue.”
Another shocked social media user wrote: “Taylor goes unanswered at the top of the board!”
A third called the whole thing “inexcusable.”
Matt had at least made viewers happy with his response just before the Taylor fail.
He’d not only given the correct title response with NSYNC’s Bye Bye Bye, but he’d also included the boyband’s infamous hand-movement choreography.
One fan noted that while this gave them joy, it didn’t excuse his inability to get the T-Swift clue correct.
The Twitter user wrote: “Points: doing the choreo for bye bye bye.
“Immediately lost points: no one knew You Need to Calm Down.”
It was especially surprising for fans that contestant Alfred wasn’t able to come up with the correct answer, as he’s had a lot of experience with game shows.
During the episode, a fan realized the New York assistant dean at Yale is a game show gargantuan.
A Twitter user began: “I remember Alfred in the middle lectern.
“He was on Millionaire several years ago when he won $250K.”
“He later appeared on Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader when we won $100K,” they claimed. “I wonder how well he will do on #Jeopardy!”
Another viewer replied, “Wow, Alfred living my dream.”
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In 2011, he was seen on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with Meredith Vieira.
He made it to 13 out of 14 questions and with all lifelines exhausted, elected to walk away with a quarter of a million dollars.