Tune in to your favorite podcasts regularly Jeopardy!You might have noticed that some of the new Final Jeopardy clues are so difficult to guess, not one contestant was able to correctly guess them. Some viewers believe the show deliberately makes it harder to guess that last clue. Let’s take a closer look at these dreaded triple stumpers.
If you’re a fan of Jeopardy!,The Final Jeopardy round can be the most difficult. That’s why contestants are given 30 seconds to write out their answers and wager their bets. If every contestant guesses correctly, that’s usually a sign that the clue was a bit too easy. What does it actually mean? No The contestant is correct Could that be a sign the clue wasn’t clear enough? That’s the question plenty of fans are asking after the last month of broadcasts.
Final Jeopardy Is Striking Out Contestants
Super Champion Cris Pantnullo claimed victory on October 4. However, despite possessing a staggering 94% correct response rating, he wasn’t able to guess the Final Jeopardy clue. The October 4 prompt was: “Like the T-U-V in Tuvalu, this landlocked country has 3 consecutive letters in its English name in alphabetic sequence.”
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Now, to guess this clue correctly, you’d have to sort through a list of landlocked Asian countries, checking if they have the sequential letters that the clue hinted at. While Jeopardy!While it is certain that this contest attracts sharp minds, it would not be possible to do it in 30 seconds. Unsurprisingly, not a single contestant guessed the correct answer—Afghanistan—leading many fans to You might argue that it was too difficult.
They are now more difficult
In Pannullo’s eleventh game, it happened again. On Friday, October 14th, the Final Jeopardy clue came out. “Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel.”Again, contestants couldn’t guess Jules Verne as a French author.
Just two broadcasts later, this time during the Second Chance Tournament, the contestants failed to correctly guess what cloned plants grow outside the math faculty building at Cambridge University and in the President’s Garden at M.I.T. As a nod towards Sir Isaac Newton, that plant is actually an apple tree.
On Friday, the competitors didn’t correctly answer. “This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it and cut it off.” One contestant didn’t even have a guess, and it turned out to be Charles Dickens is a little-known character character—Madame Defarge from Tale of Two Cities.
One week later, the contestants were still stumped Here’s a shocking clue about a well-known artist. “Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, ‘L’Oiseau de Ciel,’ a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky.” Given most people’s lack of familiarity with random airlines’ painting collections, no one correctly guessed Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
Finally, on Tuesday, the Tournament of Champions competitors didn’t have a clue who published “Battle of Lovell’s Pond”In the Portland GazetteIn 1820, they were only 13 years of age. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the one who did it.
What’s Going On With Final Jeopardy?
What does all this triple-stumping mean? Many fans noticed that the majority of them occur on Fridays. So clue-writers may be saving their most difficult questions for the weekend. Of course, you could easily dismiss some of these as tournament questions, meaning they’re expected to be of a higher caliber. However, that still doesn’t apply to all of them.
Let us know your thoughts. Are the Final Jeopardy clues becoming too complicated? Or did you correctly guess them? Either way, with the Tournament of Champions heating up, don’t expect these hardballs to stop flying!