Ken Jennings slammed for accepting a bad "Jeopardy!" Answer (and reject the right one)
An animated debate surrounded two clues of a delicate category.
Danger! Fans like to test their knowledge and play while competitors compete for the title of champion. Sometimes it is difficult to follow the pace, but there is often a little break while the Danger! The judges decide if a The answer is correct . This occurred during the episode last Thursday, and it led to the host Ken Jennings Accepting an answer that fans say was wrong. The situation was still complicated when Jennings rejected shortly after a "correct" response to an index in the same category. Read the rest to find out more about the last Danger! controversial.
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A category has caused problems.
During Thursday, April 28, Danger! Broadcast, the candidates faced the category "A_B_C_D", where all the correct answers had words or sentences with these four letters of this order.
According to New York Post , THE First Flub occurred when Jennings read the $ 800 index in the category: "It's a longer way to say vitamin C." Jesse Matheny , the return champion, buzzed and replied: "What is Asorbic acid?"
Jennings accepted the answer after a brief break, saying: "Yeah, we're going to take this; I think the" C "is pronounced".
But viewers quickly pointed out that the response itself was not correct, because Matheny was missing the first "C" in "Ascorbic".
Some fans said that Matheny should not have received points.
On Twitter, there was a debate on the question of whether Matheny should have been deemed correct.
"I did not hear the" C "of Jesse's response ascorbic acid , "A tweet of April 27 reads". I heard "asorbic acid".
Another wrote: "It was not the correct response . It should have been badly called. ""
However, @jeopardywageringstrategy, responded to this tweet, saying that Jennings was right in his decision.
"It's a acceptable pronunciation If you only know how the word is spelled, not pronounced ", the tweet reads". "Competitors have always been able to badly pronounce words as long as their response could possibly be spelled like the right one."
On Reddit, viewers said that the judges were probably generous, but for the reason.
"Given English Strange inconsistencies At the moment when the C in SC- is or is not pronounced, [they] were wrong on the correct side, "said a fan.
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Some had questions about alphabetical order.
But the fans said that it was not the only problem with the index: some argued that this did not reflect the parameters of the category either. When spelling properly, ascorbic acid has the four letters ordered as "a_c_b_c_d." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
On Reddit, other viewers argued that it was a non-problem.
"Here, however, the presence of sound" C "has no real impact on the question of whether" ascorbic acid "or not" or not " corresponds to the category , "A reditor wrote, by The US sun .
Another added: "You are right-I just realized that the first C in 'ascorbic' has no impact on the thing A-B-C-D, because it is one or the other of the two C after the B ( And before d) This is what is really necessary. "
It was not the only Flub.
In the same category, another answer was in debate. The $ 1,000 index said: "If you" go "this 7 -words sentence, you have exceeded what your obligations need.
Eric Anderson , who ended up winning the victory when everything was said and done, burst and said: "What is above the call of duty?"
Including the "what is", the sentence is seven words, the New York Post Reported, but Anderson was deemed incorrect. The answer that the judges were looking for was "beyond the call of duty", but the fans had questions again.
"#Jeopardy why not ' Above the call of duty ' work? It's ABCD, "wrote a fan, with another echoing that it was theirs" Thoughts exactly . ""
In response, another spectator argued that the judges do not include the "what is" in the seven words.
"Because the index required that the right answer be a" 7 -words "phrase", reads the tweet. "'Above the call of duty' Only five words . ""