A “Jeopardy!” The answer sparked heated debate among game show fans.
During a recent episode of the beloved game show, viewers were left fuming over the mispronunciation of an answer during a judging.
Mark Fitzpatrick, five-day “Jeopardy!” Champion, chose the $800 clue from the “Just Doin’ My Job” category.
The prompt read, “Knows the proper use of propofol; Can count to 16 (letters in Job); “Can tell people to count down from 100.”
While “Jeopardy!” As host Ken Jennings searched for the correct answer to “anesthesiologist”, contestant Eamonn Campbell appeared to mumble the word.
“Anaesthesiologist?” Campbell replied.
Although Jennings gave the contestant another chance, he continued to falter on the correct pronunciation of the word.
“Anesthesiologist?” He mispronounced again.
Another “Danger!” Contestant, Dot White, asked about the correct pronunciation of the word and replied, “What is anesthesiologist?”
Jennings then accepted the correct answer.
Fans quickly reacted to the questionable decision of the challenging prompt.
“Jeopardy and Ken Jennings blows it again…Eamonn is kicked out with his answer ‘anesthesiologist’….Unbelievable!!” Read a comment.
Another fan wrote, “Are you kidding me?!!! Eamonn Campbell is unable to stammer…he can’t even pronounce ‘anesthesiologist’. Or maybe he doesn’t know this word…”
Other viewers disagreed with the angry fans and argued that pronunciation is very important.
“Not really. You can definitely sense the lack of the first ‘s’ in her pronunciation. She said ‘ana-thees-iologist’ as opposed to ‘ana-thees-iologist’. Twice! @KenJennings made the right call. Is.”
A “Jeopardy!” The fan simply reacted and wrote, “Accentuation matters.”
This was not the first time viewers criticized a controversial decision on a game show.
Earlier this year, “Jeopardy!” The verdict was given on an episode of. The fans were up in arms.
During an episode of the game show, contestant Kelly Proulx discussed answering a clue in the “Waterfalls” category. She added an extra “s” to the end of her response, which was enough for host Jennings to deprive her of points – something fans Called “brutal”.
The clue reads: “A Yosemite fall with a thin ribbon of water that flutters in the wind like an open cloth and gives the name of this marital ensemble.”
Proulx replied, “What is Bridalveil Falls?”
“No, I’m sorry,” Jennings responded. “It’s actually Bridalveil Falls, so we couldn’t take it. This is, ‘What is a bridal veil?’
Fans were angry with Jennings’ decision and complained that it was a “cruel call”.
“Kelly must be holding a grudge on this,” one person wrote on “Jeopardy!” Wrote on. Reddit page, while someone else called the decision against his answer “extremely pedantic.”
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