'Jeopardy!' fans left angry and confused after host accepts incorrect answer

"Jeopardy!" fans were near aggravated and confused Wednesday aft the crippled amusement accepted a technically incorrect reply for a last clue.

The last Jeopardy hint read: "It’s the geographic connection successful the rubric of a Robert Burns poem astir "the mountains … covered with snowfall … the straths & greenish valleys below."

Contestant Evan Dorey wrote "Highland," and big Ken Jennings accepted the answer. "‘My Heart’s In The Highlands‘ is the sanction of the poem," Jennings explained.

However, Dorey's reply lacking the "s" connected the extremity confused fans.

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The last jeopardy hint from Wednesday's occurrence of "Jeopardy!" (Jeopardy!)

"I’m confused," 1 idiosyncratic wrote on Reddit. "If a FJ contestant gives a singular sanction though the close rubric is plural, it’s accepted. But if they constitute that singular and are starting to adhd s erstwhile clip runs out, it isn’t?"

"Little confused by that myself," different responded. "I thought if the reply was a connection successful a title, the reply needed to beryllium the rubric word, not a mentation thereof."

One idiosyncratic gave their ain mentation of Wednesday's "Jeopardy!" ruling, which near Dorey the crippled champ:

"My mentation of this ruling is: If the hint specifically wanted the afloat rubric and helium wrote ‘My Heart’s successful the Highland’, that would beryllium incorrect. But since they conscionable wanted the connection alternatively than the afloat title, they’ll instrumentality singular oregon plural."

Evan Dorey won the last jeopardy round. (Jeopardy!)

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Fans were confused erstwhile Dorey's reply was accepted. (Jeopardy!)

Other Reddit users and fans noted the ruling connected a akin connection alternatively of the close connection was "crazy."

"Crazy ruling," 1 wrote. "They shouldn’t beryllium giving recognition for akin words. The hint asked for a connection successful the poem title. Highland is not successful the title."

"Based connected today’s FJ ruling, if the hint is astir a effect successful the rubric of a Steinbeck caller and I constitute ‘What is Grape?’, I conjecture that’s acceptable," different added.

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Dorey chimed successful connected Reddit to bespeak connected his "Jeopardy!" answer.

"I'm beauteous definite the longest 10 seconds of my beingness were maine trying to fig retired whether I should enactment an ‘s’ astatine the extremity of Final," helium explained. "I didn't cognize the poem truthful I beauteous overmuch had the aforesaid statement that raged successful this thread against myself – ‘Highlands’ was the spot but the operation ‘Highland Lass’ stuck successful my caput – did Burns person a poem called ‘To A Highland Lass’? (turns retired that operation really comes from a Wordsworth poem, truthful plaything and a miss) Which to spell with? I figured with FJ, they can't inquire maine to beryllium much specific, truthful little is much and I'll permission the judges to decide, and this clip I got lucky. They didn't person to halt and confer; it beauteous overmuch played retired arsenic you saw it truthful they indispensable person anticipated that imaginable answer."

"Overall, what an astonishing crippled – I deliberation the full 2nd fractional of DJ my eyes were conscionable backmost and distant betwixt the scores and the committee – surviving and dying with each backmost and forth," helium added.

Ken Jennings presently hosts "Jeopardy!" (Disney/Eric McCandless)

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