"Danger!" The producers explain a big flub in the air: "Ken made a mistake"
His escape almost gave a competitor $ 400 for a bad answer.
Danger! legend Ken Jennings knows what it is to stand on both sides of the podium. THE The player who became host currently holds the record for The most consecutive victories (Spoiler Alert: he won 74 games in a row) and the highest income in regular play. All this to say, Jennings knows the pressure and excitement of the Salon du Quiz beloved. And yes, even Jennings is likely to make mistakes.
On April 15, Jennings had to make a correction after judging the candidate Alison Betts "Answer correctly when it was, in fact, false. Executive producer Michael Davies and producer Sarah Foss since publicly Recognized the snafu , that they admitted even caught them by surprise, considering how Jennings rarely spoils.
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"Now something happened in this game whose fans were very surprised, and it's Ken made a mistake," said Foss Inside Jeopardy! podcast.
Davies responded jokingly: "Woah, what!" Before Foss jumps to the defense of Jennings.
THE The incident occurred When Betts has selected the $ 400 tile under "places that are also first names", " The sun reports. In addition to a video clip, Jennings read the index aloud: "A bust of the Renaissance orfavente who loves the Benvenuto Cellini fight adorns the Ponte Vecchio in this city."
Betts dints his buzzer first and replied: "What is Venice?" His response was originally judged until Jennings stopped the match to correct himself.
"I mean, he only did correct. Foss explained.
She continued: "He quickly judged that Aison incorrect, but it happened so quickly, and Ken said things with such confidence that we are going" Oh yeah ", and all of a sudden, we all cried " no no! ""
The answer that Jennings was looking for was Florence, what another competitor was properly gone.
"It was a fun moment in this match," said Foss, looking back.
Nevertheless, a flow on the antenna of the host of the show took many fans off guard. Jennings' escape was a Popular discussion In a Reddit thread on the episode of April 15.
"Ooh, Ken made a mistake. I guess it is fallible," said a fan, to which someone else replied: "I said to myself" I have never heard of a person named Venice ? ""
"I was shocked," said another. "When will go back the last time a host made a mistake and immediately corrects himself like that?"
"A rare Ken error!" reads a fourth comment.
One person reasoned: "I guess that Alison gave the right answers most of the time, his brain just continued the automatic pilot and assumed that it was the right answer when they replied lol."
