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“Jeopardy!” followers had been left offended and confused Wednesday after the sport present accepted a technically incorrect reply for a ultimate clue.
The ultimate Jeopardy clue learn: “It’s the geographic phrase within the title of a Robert Burns poem about “the mountains … lined with snow … the straths & inexperienced valleys under.”
Contestant Evan Dorey wrote “Highland,” and host Ken Jennings accepted the reply. “‘My Heart’s In The Highlands‘ is the title of the poem,” Jennings defined.
However, Dorey’s reply missing the “s” on the tip confused followers.
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“I’m confused,” one consumer wrote on Reddit. “If a FJ contestant offers a singular title although the right title is plural, it’s accepted. But in the event that they write that singular and are beginning to add s when time runs out, it isn’t?”
“Little confused by that myself,” one other responded. “I believed if the reply was a phrase in a title, the reply wanted to be the title phrase, not a model thereof.”
One consumer gave their very own interpretation of Wednesday’s “Jeopardy!” ruling, which left Dorey the sport champ:
“My interpretation of this ruling is: If the clue particularly wished the complete title and he wrote ‘My Heart’s within the Highland’, that may be incorrect. But since they only wished the phrase somewhat than the complete title, they’ll take singular or plural.”
Evan Dorey gained the ultimate jeopardy spherical. (Jeopardy!)
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Fans had been confused when Dorey’s reply was accepted. (Jeopardy!)
Other Reddit customers and followers famous the ruling on an identical phrase as an alternative of the right phrase was “loopy.”
“Crazy ruling,” one wrote. “They shouldn’t be giving credit score for related phrases. The clue requested for a phrase within the poem title. Highland shouldn’t be within the title.”
“Based on at the moment’s FJ ruling, if the clue is a couple of fruit within the title of a Steinbeck novel and I write ‘What is Grape?’, I suppose that’s acceptable,” one other added.
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Dorey chimed in on Reddit to mirror on his “Jeopardy!” reply.
“I’m fairly certain the longest 10 seconds of my life had been me attempting to determine whether or not I ought to put an ‘s’ on the finish of Final,” he defined. “I did not know the poem so I just about had the identical debate that raged on this thread in opposition to myself – ‘Highlands’ was the place however the phrase ‘Highland Lass’ caught in my head – did Burns have a poem referred to as ‘To A Highland Lass’? (seems that phrase really comes from a Wordsworth poem, so swing and a miss) Which to go together with? I figured with FJ, they cannot ask me to be extra particular, so much less is extra and I’ll depart the judges to determine, and this time I received fortunate. They did not must cease and confer; it just about performed out as you noticed it so that they will need to have anticipated that potential reply.”
“Overall, what a tremendous sport – I feel the whole second half of DJ my eyes had been simply backwards and forwards between the scores and the board – residing and dying with every backwards and forwards,” he added.
Ken Jennings presently hosts “Jeopardy!” (Disney/Eric McCandless)
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