8 "Jeopardy!" Moments

Over the years, the show has had several uncomfortable answers, exchanges and interviews.


Even if Danger! follows a proven format, errors in the air and Awkward faux pas always happen. These are often the result of the quench of candidates or production errors, but no matter the cause, they are downright uncomfortable to look at. In fact, there are certain exchanges and answers that have teeth that have now dropped into infamy. We have compiled a list of the most memorable here, so read the rest for the 10 most clumsy on the air Danger! moments, and see how much you remember.

Read this then: The 10 most loved Danger! Candidates of all time .

1
The last final danger! player

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Interior edition

During an episode of 2015 of Danger ,, Kristin Sausville was left to play the last danger! alone, as illustrated in a star on Inside Editing . His two competing colleagues were "in the red" after double danger!, Making them ineligible to play the final tour.

"It's you alone Kristin - I think you're going to win the game" Alex Trebek joking.

Sausville actually answered the final question incorrectly, but because there was no one against whom to compete, she became two -day champion. After the broadcast of her victory, she tweeted on experience, writing, " Always sad When someone cannot play final. Even when I take advantage. Seriously. #Danger."

2
Ken Jennings hot response

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Even the best of the best slippery on occasion, and Danger! legend Ken Jennings is no exception. During Game 2004 , Jennings selected the $ 200 index in the "Time Time" category, which was read, "this term for a long -sleeved gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure researcher." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Buying first, Jennings replied: "What is a hoe?" Trebek quickly said no, but Jennings smiled after the answer, and the public and his competing colleagues could not control their laughter.

"Whoa, they teach you this at the Utah school, huh?" Trebek asked Jennings before another competitor bombarded with the right answer: a rake.

In December 2022, Jennings approached the answer, alleging that he wants $ 200 to return.

"Tiktok has just discovered this and is delighted," said Jennings in a clip Published on the application of social media . "Yeah, why didn't I understand well? ... I still think I was bathed, frankly. I think I owe $ 200 and maybe writers should gather a swimming pool."

He continued: "I think the idea is that the index says that it is" an immoral pleasure researcher "and we do not want to characterize all the houes in this way," he said. "Rakes, apparently, we agree with this spray on their character."

Read this then: Danger! The producer explains "Doulful to watch" episode in the middle of the counter coupling .

3
Triple strain

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ABC

The season in progress Danger! had its fair share of annoying moments, but an episode was particularly uncomfortable looking in its entirety.

During the June 7 match, return champion Suresh Krishnan confused Kristine Rembach And Lee collet , but competition was far from fierce. According The US sun , there was 23 Triple Stumpers , which is the term used when none of the three candidates gives the right answer.

Fans called the episode " painful to watch " and the " Worse game of all time , "inviting a Production response on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast.

"One thing not so great in this game - and in fact Kristine and Collette joked it in the post -match cat - they really hoped that they should not be viral for having left so much money on the board", said Foss, once again emphasizing the 23 triple stumpers. "It must be a record ... and that's something we never like to see."

4
Wolf Blitzer's unhappy game

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THE Danger! The Fandom burst in September 2009 when the CNN journalist Wolf Blitzer contributed Jeopardy of celebrity! , Answer with incorrect answers to the question after the question.

During the infamous episode , the famous journalist was blown away by the actor Andy Richter . At the end of Double Jeopardy!, Blizter was deep in the red, with $ 4,600 negative. It has become even more embarrassing, because Blitzer had to receive $ 5,600 - posting it up to $ 1,000 - so that he can compete in final danger! (Because the gains go to charity, everything Celebrity Danger! The candidates compete in the last round.)

Among his most worthy of Trisse Flubs, Blitzer was incorrectly guessed "Jerusalem" instead of "Bethlehem" as the place where Jesus and King David were from and "crash" in response to an index asking for a "5 -letters which refers to an economic accident and the precipitation focused on fear to sell. "

In the comments section of the video compiling the incorrect answers of Blitzer, a fan wrote: "It made me laugh unreasonably difficult."

Another added: "Alex should simply say" no "whenever the wolf clicks."

Read this then: Danger! Champion James Holzhauer said the recent winner "should obtain a life ban."

5
Spoiled scores

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ABC

Fans were arms during the reunion tournament in high school earlier this year. While the host Mayim Bialik spoke at the beginning of March 8 episode , the cameras turned to the three candidates, where their end amounts for the day were clearly displayed.

Although this did not spoil the whole competition - the two -day tournament ended the next day, March 9 - it did not make the editing error less embarrassing.

"I definitely wondered a minute if I had slept through Wednesday or something! "Tweeted a spectator.

Again, the production responded the next day. "From the start, apologies to all the public", executive producer Michael Davies said during a March 13 Episode of Inside Jeopardy! "We totally blow it up at the top of the show. We made a horrible mistake, where we revealed the final scores at the end in the opening cup during the Mayim monologue."

Davies continued by saying that the show takes the mistakes seriously, with promises to avoid accidents similar in the future.

6
Clumsy response

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Ny Daily News

In 2015 Danger! episode, things have become a little bizarre when the candidate Tom Imler buzzed by an incorrect response. In response to an index that said: "In Common Law, the age of this, reporting adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys and 12 in girls".

Imler buzzed with "the age of consent". The right answer was "puberty".

The error aroused indignation online - and serious allegations about Imler. Speaking with the New York Daily News , Imler condemned complaints like " 127,000 percent false. ""

He added: "I was just surprised at the speed at which he exploded. It was the wrong answer to a badly formulated question."

7
Diana Ross is how old ?

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ABC

Poor Diana Ross was subject to several clumsy moments in 2022. During a Episode last March , two candidates, Karen Johnson And Finn Corrigan , replied with Ross as their response to a last danger! Index that said: "In 2021 at the age of 95, this singer obtained a world record Guinness for the older person to release an album of new documents."

In 2021, Ross was 77 years old. (The correct answer was Tony Bennett .)

"Miss Ross is going to be crazy that they thought she was 95 years old.

Johnson and Corrigan Excused with Ross Via Twitter, but unfortunately, Ross had his age overestimated another three months later. As US Weekly reported, another player guessed that Ross was 90 years old in July 2022.

This time, the index asked questions directly about the age of Ross: "Your standard phonograph record until the 1950s, or the age that Diana Ross turned in 2022." However, the competitor was shifted by more than a decade because Ross was 78 years old.

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8
Diss from Trebek

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ABC

The interview part of Danger! is known to be a lighter part of the show - and Trebek has signed up in a memorable way in jokes with the competitors. But in 2016, the late host made the librarian Susan Cole Feel a little annoying.

"Your favorite type of music is something that I have never heard of, but it does not seem to be fun, "said Trebek as Cole approaches. The competitor then described the genre" hip hop ".

"[Nerdcore is] relationships on the things they love," said Cole. "Video games, science fiction, find it difficult to meet romantic partners. It's really catchy and fun."

But Trebek applauded fans of Nerdcore. "The losers, in other words," said the host, leaving Cole Laughter and losing for words. The host then admitted that he "teased" the competitor.


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