‘Jeopardy!’ contestant’s large loss: ‘Dumbest participant in historical past’
“Jeopardy!” has been hit with one other head-smacking gaffe.
Throughout Wednesday evening’s episode, contestant Karen Morris made a nasty selection along with her wager when it got here to the ultimate rounds of the trivia present — and he or she misplaced massive time.
Morris was within the lead with earnings of $21,800, whereas the opposite gamers had scored $7,100 and $6,400.
In the course of the Double Jeopardy phase, Morris opted for an enormous wager — $10,000 — in an try and emerge because the victor of the sport.
“This artist the youthful was engaged on yet one more portrait of Henry VIII when he died in 1543,” host Ken Jennings stated in giving her the clue, and the veterinary scholar, head shaking, struggled to give you a solution earlier than time ran out.
“I’m sorry — Hans Holbein the Youthful, the painter,” Jennings stated, to which Morris responded in a whisper: “OK.”
When it got here all the way down to the Closing Jeopardy spherical, the class was “American Novelists,” and the Virginia native had simply $11,400 to her title.
The clue: “He served with an airman named Yohannan in World Struggle II, and regardless of what readers would possibly suppose, he loved his service.”
The proper reply was “Catch-22” writer Joseph Heller, and Jennings underscored the significance of Morris’ forthcoming response, saying, “She had a giant lead earlier than tangling with that final Day by day Double — she must get Heller her.”
Sadly, a blank-faced Morris, who had wagered $6,001, wrote Hunter S. Thompson — the “gonzo journalist” recognized for “Worry and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
With a shrug, she unceremoniously dropped to $5,399 and a third-place end.
Followers couldn’t assist however scoff and roll their digital eyes at Morris’ blunder.
“Karen Morris is likely to be the dumbest #jeopardy participant in historical past. She had a $14k lead with solely $2400 in clues left on the board, and he or she wagered $10k on a every day double she bought fallacious LMAO,” a viewer tweeted.
“Welcome to third place and Jeopardy infamy,” added one other.
One longtime watcher chimed in: “I’ve watched Jeopardy repeatedly for 35+ years and might’t bear in mind something that silly. #jeopardy.”
Another person wrote: “This individual made worst every day double wager of all time – costing her positive win and placing her in third place. Who’s Karen. #Jeopardy.”
However Morris is making an attempt to not take the hate to coronary heart and even responded to — and seemingly made gentle of — her on-air mistake on Twitter.
“Making an applicable wager requires contemplating the probability of figuring out the proper response, which requires assessing your competency within the class, which requires consciousness of what the class is, which, at that second, I DID NOT HAVE,” she shared on Wednesday, earlier than adding a final assessment in one other publish.
“Finally, I did what I did, and I had THE MOST FUN, and on the finish of the day (I’m sorry Mother, I do know you hate that phrase) it’s a sport, and it’s a present, and it’s a sport present,” she wrote.
Morris’ loss was the most recent in a string of blunders by the contestants and the present itself.
Earlier this week, a contestant mispronounced Ewan McGregor’s title as “Ewan Gregor,” which host Ken Jennings permitted, setting her up for a win regardless of the error.
The present additionally apologized just lately when an episode’s remaining scores for gamers have been flashed on-screen at first of the present — spoiling the ultimate end result for viewers.