“Jeopardy!” fans are fed up that among the show’s contestants are getting some pretty “easy” questions flawed on the sport show.
Amid a rash of recent controversies, fans flooded Twitter this week to blast their frustration after contestants Dennis Leung, Kathy Barkey and Ittai Sopher, two-day champion, missed several questions throughout every round of the show.
“Whoa! What was up with the oldsters on #Jeopardy tonight?” one Twitter user ranted. “For people of that caliber, those were some pretty basic questions that nobody was getting…”
A separate Twitter user claimed that host Ken Jennings looked “annoyed on the contestants fluffing some pretty easy questions.”
One other user raged on Monday: “Holy s–t! I keep saying the Final #Jeopardy clues keep getting easier, but today’s takes the cake. Really easy. Nevertheless, two of the three contestants either misread or misunderstood the clue and didn’t get the reply right. Everyone involved at @Jeopardy needs to be ashamed.”
Together with the user’s statement, he included the Final Jeopardy! clue, which read, “On the 1865 Paris art salon, the elder of those two men said ‘If the younger were successful, it will be because his name appears like mine.’”
Just one contestant accurately guessed “Who’re (Édouard) Manet and (Claude) Monet?” with the opposite two contestants only penning one name.
“Exceptionally poorly worded final query on #Jeopardy tonight—looks like many were confused about whether it was asking for one name or two,” one other Twitter user added of Monday night’s last query.
On July 6, Redfield & Wilton Strategies conducted a survey where they asked 1,500 people in the event that they consider “Jeopardy!” questions are too easy. 51% of the polled individuals “consider the questions on Jeopardy are the identical in difficulty/easiness as they was once a number of years ago.”
This just isn’t the primary time “Jeopardy!” fans have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the show. After Monday’s episode, “Jeopardy!” fans accused Ken Jennings of tricking a contestant into betting big.
Despite the small hiccup on Monday’s show, Jennings has received praise online because the host.
“Ken Jennings is a pleasant host,” one user previously wrote. “Mayim was nice but had such awkward timing. I hope Ken wants the gig full time.”
“Please make Ken the one everlasting host,” one user begged. “Whenever you were having different people host after Alex passed away I assumed she is likely to be a very good fit – not a lot anymore. I’m 100% team Ken.”
Nevertheless, the show has at all times stood behind selecting Mayim Bialik together with Jennings.
“Mayim and Ken are each extraordinarily talented and easily lovely humans,” Michael Davies, the show’s executive producer, previously said. “They support the staff and one another. They love and respect this institution of a television program. In return, the staff and I are honored to work alongside them.”
Before Bialik and Jennings took over, the show was hosted by Alex Trebek – whose tenure at the sport show spanned 37 seasons. After an extended battle with pancreatic cancer, the 80-year-old died in November 2020.
