He’s a video game present host loathed by admirers right now.
Who is Ken Jennings?
On Wednesday night’s episode of “Jeopardy!” on ABC, Jennings and the trivia program’s unseen judges made a call that infuriated some viewers who vented their frustrations on social media.
One blasted the transfer as “disgusting.”
The drama unfolded throughout the very last clue of Double Jeopardy, which was in the classification “Waterfalls.”
“A Yosemite slide with a wispy ribbon of drinking water that flutters in the air like a diaphanous cloth bears the name of this marital put on,” Jennings claimed, for $2,000.
Returning winner Kelly Proulx, a communications director from Billerica, Massachusetts, buzzed and guessed, “What is Bridalveil Falls?”
Regrettably, she was off by an “s.”
“No, I’m sorry,” Jennings, 50, mentioned. “It’s in fact Bridalveil Drop, so we couldn’t take that. It is, ‘What is a Bridalveil?’”
That clue was specially baffling since other watery Yosemite sites have the appended letter: Yosemite Falls, Wapama Falls and Carlon Falls, among the them.
To boot, the smallest of the a few waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls in New York and Ontario, Canada, is identified as Bridal Veil Falls.
Very poor Proulx finished the spherical in past location with $8,000. Contestant Dana Keane had $8,300 and Isaac Hirsch had $18,000.
Following Ultimate Jeopardy, Hirsch, a customer help crew leader from Burbank, California, arrived out on major with $19,185 — and Proulx’s successful streak was introduced to a close.
Regular viewers were peeved by the Double Jeopardy blunder.
“I typically give very long and extensive deference to the judges, but f–k the judges for that ruling,” one Reddit person mentioned. “There is almost nothing pinning the clue to ‘fall,’ so she acquired the necessary information proper. That was positively disgusting.”
“Yeesh which is a brutal phone on the last clue,” a further Reddit consumer mentioned.
A third was extra blunt.
“That ruling was rubbish,” they stated.
