Jeopardy! fans bored by the ‘easiest board of all time’ after listing complaints
Jeopardy! fans have taken to social media to speak out about the recent trivia board following them calling out the game show last month over Ken Jennings’ call
Jeopardy! fans have called out the game show, after airing out their complaints last month, for a category in the trivia contest that they deemed not difficult enough for participating contestants.
The official Jeopardy! Instagram account recently shared a clip from the long-running series on the social media platform, showing a contestant rather than resident host Ken Jennings just reading the clue. Gordon said, “for all of you Dr. Seuss fans, before work or play, you can start your day with green eggs and hame–the green coming from Swiss chard or spinach. And from this sauce that contains fresh basil leaves as well as pine nuts.”
Answering the $800 clue correctly, the contestant said “What is pesto?” Viewers couldn’t help but point out for many of the categories were “easy” rather than baffling to the point where contestants struggled to answer.
“What are you, an @idiotsandwich? Play along with this category presented by chef @gordongram,” the post’s caption read.
Jeopardy! fans flooded the comment section with their opinion on the category.
“That’s the easiest board of all time,” one penned under the post, as another quipped, “It’s categories like these that give me the delusion that I could be on Jeopardy!”
A second added, “finally a set of questions I could have aced!” making a nod to the seemingly easiness of the category compared to others.
Although some weren’t impressed with the clues in the category, many were at least not raging over the episode like some viewers did last month.
After one Jeopardy! episode aired in mid-September, viewers were left raging because of an “absolutely ridiculous” call that game show host Ken made when he failed to give two contestants points after a video game clue.
The trivia questions that sparked outrage was from the “From The Video Game Manual” category. The $1,000 clue read, “From an N64 game: ‘Recover the pirate helicopter & get to the bottom of this. You are licensed to kill.'”
Paolo Pasco, who was a contestant in the episode at the time, buzzed in and answered, “What is GoldenEye?” To which Ken replied, “Can you be more specific?” And Paolo elaborated, “JamesBond: “GoldenEye?” And despite being almost spot-on with this answer, Ken refused to give Paolo the points.
When fellow contestant Steven Olson buzzed in and answered, “What’s 007 GoldenEye?” Ken once again did not accept this answer.
One viewer wrote, disagreeing with Ken, “‘GoldenEye’ absolutely should have been accepted, and ‘007 GoldenEye’ probably should have been too. On the box art, the way the logo is stylized doesn’t clearly indicate whether the 007 is supposed to come before or after GoldenEye, and on the title screen, there’s no 007 at all; the in-game name of the game is just GoldenEye.”
They continued, “The very first page of the manual before the table of contents does say “Thank you for selecting the GOLDENEYE 007 Game Pak,” but the page that they got the quote in the clue from is titled ‘THE GOLDENEYE STORY.'”
They went on to add, “If they can accept ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ for ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ then there’s no reason not to accept GoldenEye. Ken’s comment seemed to indicate that they needed to differentiate from the movie (even though the clue very clearly indicated it was the video game), but then why do they accept ‘Wizard of Oz’ when referring to the book ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ instead of requiring that it be differentiated from the movie?”
