‘Jeopardy!’ fans outraged after contestant receives questionable ruling: ‘Ken Jennings blows it again’
Jennings took over ‘Jeopardy!’ hosting duties after Alex Trebek died in 2020 from pancreatic cancer
One “Jeopardy!” answer sparked a heated debate between game show fans.
During a recent episode of the beloved game show, a ruling had viewers riled up over the mispronunciation of an answer.
The prompt read, “Knows the proper use of propofol; can count to 16 (letters in the job); can tell people to count backward from 100.”
While “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings was looking for the correct answer to, “anesthesiologist,” contestant Eamonn Campbell appeared to flub the pronunciation of the word.
“Anateesiologist?” Campbell answered.
Although Jennings gave the contestant another chance, he continued to stumble on the correct pronunciation of the word.
“Anathesiologist?” he mispronounced again.
Another “Jeopardy!” contestant, Dot White, buzzed in with the correct pronunciation of the word and answered, “”What is an anesthesiologist?”. Jennings then accepted the correct answer.
Fans were quick to react to the questionable ruling of the challenging prompt.
“Jeopardy and ken Jennings blows it again … screwing Eamonn out of his answer ‘anesthesiologist’ ….unbelievable!!” one comment read.
Another fan wrote, “Are you frikin kidding me?!!! Eamonn Campbell doesn’t have a lisp… He just can’t seem to pronounce ‘anesthesiologist.’ Or maybe he just doesn’t know the word…”
Other viewers disagreed with the outraged fans and argued pronunciation is very important.
“Not really. You could definitely discern his lack of the 1st ‘s’ in his pronunciation. He said ‘ana-theeze-iologist’ as opposed to ‘ana-steeze-iologist.’ Twice! @KenJennings def made the right call.”
A “Jeopardy!” fan simply reacted and wrote, “Pronunciation matters.”
This was not the first time viewers slammed a controversial ruling on the game show.
Earlier this year, a ruling on an episode of “Jeopardy!” had fans up in arms.
During an episode of the game show, contestant Kelly Proulx buzzed in to answer a clue in the “Waterfalls” category. She added an extra “s” at the end of her response, which was enough for host Jennings to deny her the points — something fans called “brutal.”
The clue read: “A Yosemite fall with a wispy ribbon of water that flutters in the air like a diaphanous cloth bears the name of this marital wear.”
Proulx answered, “What is Bridalveil Falls?”
“No, I’m sorry,” Jennings responded. “It’s actually Bridalveil Fall, so we couldn’t take that. It is, ‘What is a bridal veil?’”
Fans were upset at Jennings’ ruling and complained that it was a “brutal call.”
“Kelly should hold a grudge on this one,” one person wrote on the “Jeopardy!” Reddit page, while someone else called the decision against her answer “extremely pedantic.”
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