Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings claps back at fan over ‘factually incorrect’ clue
KEN Jennings has a Jeopardy! Viewer on Twitter who was following the popular game show over a “factually incorrect” tip.
Last week, the coveted pooches were labeled a “working breed” in a question searching for golden retrievers, which angered many fans.
The danger! Skeptics had tweeted, “Incorrect today…the golden retriever is a member of the athletic group, not the working group.”
Ken, 48, replied: “I didn’t say ‘work group’, it was ‘work dog.’
Goldens are among the most common breeds for various types of working dogs, including companion dogs.”
The user replied, “What a difference a tag-err word makes! Ahh, I misread it (tricky nonetheless) and am corrected… thanks.”
‘Big mistake!’
The pesky clue didn’t go unnoticed during $184,000 champion Stephen Webb’s eight-day seventh win last Thursday – he lost a episode later.
The game show’s recent big winner had picked “Hair Of The Dog” for $200.
Ken read, “Rich, lustrous gold of varying shades is this American Kennel Standard for this working breed’s coat.”
Neither participant spoke up with a guess, and Ken broke the awkward silence by saying, “That’s a golden retriever!” with a grin.
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Fans who posted on various social media platforms didn’t let her off her leash that easily.
In particular, their designation of Goldens as a “working breed” came under fire.
One Twitter user wrote, “Golden Retrievers are not actually a working dog breed, they are sporting breeds.”
Another dog lover tweeted, “Hey @Jeopardy FYI a Golden Retriever is not a working breed.”
On Facebook, a fan called the mix-up a “bad mistake”. adding: “Goldens are only in the sports group! Point!”
Another viewer agreed: “Golden retrievers are a sporting breed that doesn’t work! These are two completely different groups.”
And despite Ken’s clapping, the notice read as “sporting breed” rather than “working dog,” as he wrote.
According to the American Kennel Club, which the note cites, golden retrievers are listed as part of the “sports group” that doesn’t work.
“Active and alert by nature, sporting dogs make likeable, versatile companions,” according to the website, which also owns spaniels and retrievers.
QUESTIONABLE NOTICES
Over the summer, Ken and actress Mayim Bialik, 47, were announced as permanent successors to the late great Alex Trebek, who had hosted since 1984.
The announcement of the hosting wasn’t the only big change for Jeopardy!, as executive producer Michael Davies – replacing the ousted Mike Richards – filled a job that hadn’t changed hands in decades before them either.
Meanwhile, hardcore fans have scrutinized them, and they’ve discovered plenty of other clues about the regularly aired show that they didn’t like.
Recently, a 26-word Final Jeopardy! Hint was clocked the way the worst worded fans had ever seen it.
The show’s producers misspelled a quote from Edgar Allan Poe and deeply angered audiences by using Brian Laundrie, who killed his girlfriend Gabby Petito last year, as a “disgusting” prompt.
Most notably, the game show suffered a horrible bug last week that spoiled an entire episode by showing contestants’ winning scores at the start of a show.
Harry Friedman, the former longtime producer of Jeopardy!, has been known to remain at the judges’ table throughout each episode, while his new EP Davies is not known to have done so.